Don't keep secrets on your cell phone

[mzkhadir]

Yahoo News

 

[acemcmac]

All of my old phones are sitting in a drawer. Oh, and repost.

 

[Pegun]

Well how dumb do you have to be to input your credit card number or bank account number into your cell phone anyway. Even if you work for a business, either carry the card or put it in your wallet or something. Not on your phone. A new cell phone is stolen every 3 minutes. Doesn't anyone in the business world think logically?

 

[lokiju]

Interesting, guess it's similar to recovering deleted data on hard drives, most people think once it's deleted theres no getting it back.

 

[lokiju]

Originally posted by: Pegun
Well how dumb do you have to be to input your credit card number or bank account number into your cell phone anyway. Even if you work for a business, either carry the card or put it in your wallet or something. Not on your phone. A new cell phone is stolen every 3 minutes. Doesn't anyone in the business world think logically?

Well the did say in the story that a lot of the phone they did this on were e-mail capable, so I'd think a good amount of the info they got was through e-mail exchanges that were recovered.

Just a guess though.

 

[ForumMaster]

well obviously. considering the stories i've heard of data being recovered from HDD's that have been burned and tortured, a phone should be easy.