WhatsApp Compromised: Leaks, Hacks And Spies Beyond Encryption

An international scandal has broken out - Facebook, the parent company of messaging app WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint against a private spy agency NSO, accusing them of compromising WhatsApp accounts of 1400 of its users. These include prominent journalists, politicians, bureaucrats spread across four continents. So then, what's the point of end-to-end encryption. Essentially WhatsApp is safe, till such time someone just hacks into our phone. Is digital security a myth? How to protect yourself from this? We also noticed many apps on android offer services to spy on one another against a charge