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Deleted Personal data can be retrieved from Sold Smartphone online says Avast

Most of the mobile lovers whenever a new gadget arrives in the mobile market then analyze its features with running mobile then go for purchase of new mobile or tablet.

In this course when mobile users have decided to scrap or sell running mobile/tablet device and buy newly launched mobile/tablet in the market then what is the precautions may be implemented while selling a Smartphone. Simply deleting files on smartphone is not be enough there are many software available in market to retrieve data from mobile. When this situation go beyond when hacker is ready to steal your personal data from used smartphone sold online, despite consumers deleting their data.

Leading online security software services like AVAST said they can easily able to recover nearly 40K personal data from used devices which were sold online like images of family, browsing history, email IDs, text messages, contact information, special notes, and four previous owner’s identities of the sellers and one completed loan application.

Nearly 80K used smartphones are ready on ebay in the US for sale. Mobile sellers don’t have enough idea about that they are selling their memories and their identities along with mobile device.
Deleting personal data from mobile device is not enough software can be recovered all the information stored before deletion unless you completely overwrite it said, Jude McColgan, President of Mobile at AVAST.

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