Nigeria, April 13 -- Pavel Durov, the founder and chief executive officer at Telegram, has faulted WhatsApp's 'end-to-end encryption', alleging that WhatsApp messages are not secure.

Mr Durov made the claim in an X post on Sunday, alleging that 95 per cent of private messages on WhatsApp end up in plain-text backups on Apple/Google servers.

Meanwhile, according to the information on the WhatsApp website, the end-to-end encryption is "on by default" so that only the sender and recipient can read messages, and "no one in between" (including WhatsApp) can access them.

The Meta Platforms app, WhatsApp, also explains that when a message is sent, "the only person who can read it" is the intended recipient, and not hackers, governments, or ev...