The root of some users frustration with WhatsApp comes from the company s owner.
In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp, co-founded by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, for $22 billion.
Data breaches have plagued Facebook users for years. Facebook announced a major hack in 2018 that impacted 50 million accounts. Facebook employees knew about flaws in the platform s security of user accounts as early as December 2017, according to a Telegraph report.
During the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, Facebook said as many as 87 million people may have had their data accessed.
Koum left Facebook in 2018, and Acton went on to inject $50 million of his own money into rival encrypted chat app Signal.