Specialist of Roskachestvo Kuzmenko: if you lose your smartphone, you urgently need to block it the procedure for losing your smartphone. He recalled in an interview with the Prime agency that in the modern world a gadget is a wallet, a passport and social contacts, so you need to make sure that personal data does not fall into the hands of intruders.
The expert recommended protecting the device with a pin -code or biometric fingerprint, and check if the remote locking feature is active. In addition, you should rewrite the IMEI and serial number of the phone, this information will help in case of theft.
First of all, you need to use the “Find phone” function or call from another number, in case the gadget is still nearby. If there is confidence that it has been stolen, the data can be deleted using the appropriate function, but it will no longer be possible to find the smartphone, Kuzmenko warned.
He also advised to log out from all services and social networks using the “End sessions on all devices ”, block the SIM card and bank cards attached to the phone. In addition, the police can write a statement about the theft indicating the IMEI number, serial number of the device and the circumstances of the theft.
Earlier, American scientists called Bluetooth a potentially dangerous technology in terms of hacking. Experts talked about the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology, which, due to low power consumption, allows the user's smartphone to interact with various accessories.