WhatsApp has started temporarily banning users for 24 hours who are currently using any third-party WhatsApp clients. Users facing the issue now could access their app after the period of 24 hours. WhatsApp team explained via its FAQ website, that it is against ‘Terms of Service’ to use WhatsApp Plus or any other 3rd-party unofficial app. Even rumours from several popular news websites had suggested that WhatsApp is working on a new version of its instant messaging client,, in order to provide its users a lot of handy new features. However the news came out to be completely fake!!
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/01/Whatsapp-banned-for-24-hours.html