2 billion people worldwide use WhatsApp
The WhatsApp team said in its official blog that the number of
In a statement, the messenger team reminded that messages in it are protected by end-to-end encryption by default.The company places particular emphasis on the security of communication in the application, although Pavel Durov previously criticized WhatsApp for vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to gain access to user data.
It is worth noting that, despite all the scandals, the messenger's audience has grown by 500 million people since 2018: then the number of users was 1.5 billion.In 2016, WhatsApp had 1 billion users.
Recall that the messenger belongs to the company that owns the largest social network in the world - Facebook.