The UN leadership will give up WhatsApp

The UN leadership has given up the WhatsApp messenger for working correspondence. This was announced by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the organization. According to him, the application is an "unprotected communication mechanism.

"At the moment, top UN leadership has been advised not to use WhatsApp as an unprotected communication mechanism. So no, I don't think that Secretary General António Guterres is using it," Farhan Haq said.

The UN representative declined to comment on the alleged involvement of the Prince of Saudi Arabia in the hacking of the smartphone of Amazon head Jeff Bezos using WhatsApp. Haq said the organisation needed more information.

It is reported that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia in 2018 may have sent Bezos a malicious file to WhatsApp, which was used to hack the businessman's smartphone. The break-in was discovered in March 2019. Private detectives, who were engaged in an independent investigation of the situation, reported that hackers who cooperated with the government of Saudi Arabia were behind the break-in.