Three methods to prevent hackers from recovering data from your old phone

With mobile operating systems constantly emerging with newer features, each version of the operating system requires optimal hardware to run on. New operating systems tend to lag on older smartphone hardware and upgrading a phone’s hardware is not possible. The maximum possibility is to upgrade your storage, but many phones, for instance the iPhone, does not offer a micro SD card slot. So what do you do? Replace it with an upgraded new generation smartphone and dump / sell the older one.

So what do you do when you want to get rid of your old phone? One simple answer anyone would give is ‘factory reset it’. Well, though you should do it, simply factory resetting the phone will not ensure that your data is completely wiped off.

If you did not know this by now, then you should. A smarpthone can be easilyunformatted and data can be recovered by using some third-party recovery software. All this can be done on almost any smartphone out there and data on the phone recovered in less than a day. So if you have some really sensitive data on your old smartphone, you could end up in trouble if it falls in the wrong hands. For the full article click here 

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