{"id":3502,"date":"2011-03-23T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2019-04-12T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T10:53:07","slug":"cell-phone-data-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-data-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell Phone Data Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jason Hart, a hacker who uses his skills to help improve security, bought thirty-five used cell phones from eBay and secondhand shops and a further fifty Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards.  Nineteen of the old cell phones and twenty-seven of the SIM cards still contained almost all of the personal data originally stored on them by their former owners.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis report is a shocking wake up call and shows how mobile phones can inadvertently cause people to be careless with their personal data,\u201d says Danny Harrison from data protection company CPP Group, which is based in the United Kingdom.  The reason for the shocking result is thought to be that people who have deleted data from their cell phones before passing them on believed that was enough to protect them, when in reality they should first log out of all remote accounts that the cell phone is linked to via the internet, and then factory reset the phone to all its original settings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe safest way to remove all of your data from a mobile phone or SIM card is to totally destroy the SIM and double check to ensure that all content has been removed from your phone before disposal,\u201d Hart advises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you think you have wiped the personal data from your old cellular phone before passing it on? Think again. A British study examining old cell phones found that more than fifty percent of them still had personal data accessible even after being wiped, with everything from bank account details, friends\u2019 telephone numbers and email addresses, credit card PIN numbers and much more besides, still stored on the phones, despite their former owners\u2019 best efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1824],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nCell Phone Data Scare<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/cell-phone-data-scare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cell Phone Data Scare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Do you think you have wiped the personal data from your old cellular phone before passing it on? 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