Your WhatsApp account can be suspended by anyone who has your phone number... Because it still uses phone number verification and has a bug

Yes it's partly an oversight on Whatsapp's side ie. they should not disable the whole account, just the new device. But phone numbers are often known, so it is quite easy to sabotage someone's account this way. Good services like Threema and others won't even require your phone number or e-mail address, so it is basically impossible to cause mischief.

Yet another reason why you want to always be sure to have a secondary or more service as alternatives.

See Your WhatsApp account can be suspended by anyone who has your phone number

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