For dozens if reasons one might give for it, hacking has become very common and that has come down to mobile devices and not only PC’s. While you wonder if it’s possible to find out if your device is hacked, we present to you an article about How to know if your phone has been hacked.
It might be a jealous husband trying to spy on his wife, or the opposite. It might be a parent trying to monitor the phone activities of his/her child. All these could be reasons for hacking someone’s phone. However, a good number will agree to this: No one, wants to be hacked! And that’s why you want to know How to tell if your phone has been hacked
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How to know if your phone has been hacked
While there are many ways to hack an individual’s mobile phone, there are also a good number of ways to know if your device is hacked. Check this out.
A sudden drop in battery life
Alot of recording activities are performed by a hacked phone, recordings of chosen activities by the hacker which are later transferred to them (Hacker). This drains the battery life even when you’re not using your device.
You can try to be sure by doing a little comparison, check out for your friends who use the same phone model with you and see how their battery drains, is it the same? Or you can try removing the battery (if removable), inserting it in another device and see how fast it drains.
Battery heat build-up
Your device is not in use, you haven’t kept it under the sun for a while. Yet, it’s really hot as though you’ve been playing games or browsing all day. That must be a sign of some background processes or data transference taking place, in the absence of your knowledge.
Activity without input
Your phone makes noise even when not it use, it powers ‘off’ or restarts for no reason. These are bad signs, a phone which is not being used should be silent, it’s battery should be preserved for calls, messages e.t.c not carrying out Activity without input.
Increased data consumption
Most programs making the spying successful bring a huge rise in data consumption as passing of information from your device to third parties occur. You should watch of and see how fast your weekly or monthly data subscription exhaust.
