{"id":106665,"date":"2026-03-31T13:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-chairman-barrister-gohars-whatsapp-account-hacked-scammers-seek-money\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:03:07","slug":"pti-chairman-barrister-gohars-whatsapp-account-hacked-scammers-seek-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pti-chairman-barrister-gohars-whatsapp-account-hacked-scammers-seek-money\/","title":{"rendered":"PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar\u2019s WhatsApp account hacked, scammers seek money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"min-height:300px\">\n<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: In a serious case of cyber fraud, the WhatsApp account of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan was hacked, with scammers allegedly using his identity to request money from people in his contact list.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on X, Barrister Gohar said his WhatsApp account was hacked at around 11am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy WhatsApp has been hacked and is now deleted from my phone. Requests for money transfers are being made from my number,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the public to ignore any such requests while he seeks recourse through the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Barrister Gohar added that he has contacted the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing, warning that his number remains active and could still be misused.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Urgent \u2013 my WhatsApp number was hacked this morning sometime about 11am. The WhatsApp now stand deleted from my cell; some requests for money transfers have been made \u2013 please ignore all such requests while I seek recourse to the concerned authorities. Thanks<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barrister Gohar Khan (@BarristerGohar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarristerGohar\/status\/2038867219174895690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He also called for swift action to prevent potential misuse of his data.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp hacking cases have surged in Pakistan in recent months, with hundreds of accounts reportedly compromised, prompting national alerts.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, the National Cyber Emergency Response Team issued a nationwide advisory warning of a sharp rise in WhatsApp account hijacking incidents, describing the attacks as widespread and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the advisory, attackers are primarily using social engineering techniques rather than exploiting technical flaws in the app.<\/p>\n<p>Common tactics include tricking users into sharing one-time passcodes (OTPs), manipulating call-forwarding settings, sending phishing links, and distributing malicious QR codes that link victims\u2019 accounts to attackers\u2019 devices.<\/p>\n<p>Once compromised, these accounts are used to impersonate victims, defraud their contacts, access private communications, and spread malicious content.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"My WhatsApp Was Hacked at 11 AM Today, Says Barrister Gohar Ali Khan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G5lO9yXlKlc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: In a serious case of cyber fraud, the WhatsApp account of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan was hacked, with scammers allegedly using his identity to request money from people in his contact list. In a statement on X, Barrister Gohar said his WhatsApp account was hacked at around 11am. \u201cMy WhatsApp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.arynews.tv\/zip-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Untitled-1-199.jpg?imageMogr2\/format\/jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}