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What to do if your smartphone is hacked? - Knowledge World






Not a day goes by without a smartphone now. You need to keep this phone safe with you at all times. What kind of work we do with the smartphone. This is what connects us with friends through various social networking apps like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp etc. Not only that, money transactions can also be done through mobile banking on smartphones.


If the smartphone is ever hacked, then you have to read the big trouble. Your various social networking accounts can be hacked! Your phone's photos, videos or mobile bank account information may be stolen. Women are one of the main victims of these hacks. Hackers are hacking their smartphones. Then they are blackmailing by stealing their phone information or personal photos, demanding large sums of money.

So you need to know the things to keep the smartphone safe. Let's not know what to do if the smartphone is hacked.

What is smartphone hacking?


Smartphone hacking is the act of illegally infiltrating someone's smartphone and taking control of that phone. In this case, a hacker takes control of the victim's phone in various ways and then achieves his own purpose from the phone. After the smartphone is hacked, the hacker can do whatever he wants with the phone. Any file, picture, audio, voice call, text message, everything can be stolen by a hacker from the victim's phone.

Keep the phone locked


Keep the phone locked with a pattern or passcode to protect it from others. In no way can an app be installed on a phone from an unknown or suspicious source. Use Google Play Store for Android phone and App Store for iPhone to install any app. And if on the phone

Download the app


If you do not have Play Store, download the app from reliable websites like apkmirror, apk-dl.

WiFi and Bluetooth


Never turn on the phone's WiFi and Bluetooth unnecessarily. Almost all of us use the ‘ShareIt’ app to exchange something from one phone to another. But many phones have WiFi or hotspot on even after using this app. So turn off WiFi when using this app.

Unknown link


Do not download anything from any unfamiliar link found on social networking sites like Facebook, WhatsApp etc.

Internet on


In order for the hacking process to take place, the victim's phone needs to have an internet connection. So if you do not turn on the Internet without the need to avoid the possibility of the phone being hacked.

Fingerprint


Lock the phone with a pattern or passcode. Fingerprint lock or face lock methods are not very useful to avoid hacking. Because in case of emergency, the hacker can easily copy your fingerprint from the things you use and open the fingerprint lock and face lock with any of your pictures.

Free wifi


Do not connect the phone to unfamiliar free public open wifi hotspots. Because phones connected to WiFi hotspots can be hacked by hackers in a 'man in the middle' way.

Personal information


Do not keep any sensitive or personal information or pictures on the phone that could harm you if they fall into the hands of others.


--Thank You

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