If you're
using an Android mobile phone, chances are that you're in regular touch with
your dear ones through WhatsApp? So what's the big deal, you might ask? Well, it’s
now a matter of concern and users must be very careful about the information they
share on this instant messaging app - WhatsApp. No form of digital
communication is entirely secure nowadays, including mobile chat applications. By
using miscreant apps and a few scripts, anyone can steal your chats and can
check what you talked about with anyone.
A Dutch
Security Consultant found out that all the WhatsApp chat logs are saved in the phone's
SD card which is easily accessible and readable by other apps because of the
way Android allows sharing of data between apps.
Any database which is saved on an Android SD card can be read by any other
Android application if the user allows it to access the SD card and this
is not at all a big task because majority of users allow access to everything
on their mobile devices by default. This information was shared by Bas Bosschert in one of his blogs. Further
Bas Bosschert explained the answer to "What do we need to steal someone's
WhatsApp database? For this, he highlighted that we just need a place to store
the database, and an Android application which uploads the WhatsApp database onto
a website."
