I deleted some files from my phone (android 5). Can a hacker recover my files?
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1Related: https://security.stackexchange.com/q/12503/165253 and https://security.stackexchange.com/q/110734/165253 – forest Dec 18 '18 at 04:07
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"Hacker"? Do you mean remotely? Do you mean if someone gets access to your phone? Where did you store these videos? – schroeder Dec 18 '18 at 09:15
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How does this have anything to do with the `maleware` tag? – CaffeineAddiction Dec 18 '18 at 09:35
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In a word, yes.
Thought it wouldn't take a "hacker" ... just anyone with knowledge of how to recover deleted files from a file system. Most apple geniuses or Best Buy Geek Squad members could do this in there free time if they wanted to.
- If you encrypted your phone's hard drive it will be much harder.
- If your files are on a non-encrypted SD card ... it will be trivially easy.
- If you mean a rogue app doing this remotely ... it depends on if it has
rootor an exploit that can give itroot
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