After returning from having smartphone , which she had taken in for repair, a woman discovered that personal photos of her with revealing content had been sent from her smartphone to a number that was not in her contact list.
The phone was delivered to replace a broken screen on November 16, 2014, but the owner found the shipment a short time ago when she deleted old photos from her tablet that was synced with the smartphone. It appears that the employee of the well-known RadioShack chain, Jose Robert Miranda, who has now been fired, did more than just repair the device, but also searched for the data on the device. The 24-year-old employee is charged with theft and copying of personal data, and appeared in court last Monday.
When it comes to smartphones and tablets, a good idea to prevent access is to create a password or pattern that no one can easily guess. With computers, things are easier because the content stored on the hard drive can be encrypted. The safest thing, of course, is to take the system for repair without the storage drive.
Android a data encryption feature that does not unlock the content unless someone enters the correct sequence of characters (PIN or password).
On iOS, creating a passcode for phone functions also encrypts the data on it. Even if the passcode is four digits long, that would mean it would take 10,000 attempts to crack. There is also the option to use alphanumeric characters.
