\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s the first thing that comes to mind whenever you hear the term hacker or being hacked?<\/strong> Most people had similar answers whenever they answered with the following words:\r\n\r\n \t- \r\n
\r\n \t- Vulnerability<\/li>\r\n \t
- Espionage<\/li>\r\n \t
- Data theft<\/li>\r\n \t
- Identity theft<\/li>\r\n \t
- Fraud<\/li>\r\n \t
- Stolen money<\/li>\r\n \t
- Scam<\/li>\r\n \t
- Finding out my password<\/li>\r\n \t
- Someone being able to see my photos<\/li>\r\n \t
- Someone being able to see my emails<\/li>\r\n \t
- Spying on my conversations<\/li>\r\n \t
- Recording my calls<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAll of them are right, but the word \u201chacking\u201d in its technical definition means to enter without permission into a system, device, or a computer network.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAnd the definition of hackers is the people that make these actions, and who take advantage of these advanced knowledge to access and modify IT systems for, generally, illegal purposes.\r\n\r\nThis is the reason why hackers are also known as \u201ccomputer pirates<\/em>\u201d since, just as the feared men that assaulted ships on the sea in the past, they also tend to have the intention of stealing.\r\n\r\nAlthough hackers do not seek jewels and treasure, they look for something even more valuable: \u201cinformation,\u201d since it gives you power and, of course, money.\r\n\r\nTherefore, when someone says that your mobile phone has been hacked, they refer to the act of someone having access to the information on your device, without your consent, generally from a remote location, and with illegal purposes.\r\n\r\nAnd, if you think that hackers only attack computer operating systems, you\u2019re wrong! Any device connected to the internet is vulnerable to being hacked.\r\n\r\nTherefore, our mobile phone is included into that category. We do almost all of the operations that we normally do on a computer or laptop in our smartphone anyways.\r\n\r\nWe receive and answer emails, we take pictures and store them in our mobile phone\u2019s storage, we enter and interact with others in social network apps, and we consult information on the internet from our smartphones.\r\n\r\nWe listen to music, read books, and, if that wasn\u2019t enough, we make purchases, pay bills, make payments and transfer money from our mobile phone.\r\n\r\nThis device has turned into our center of operations, it allows us to bring our office with us whenever we go, and, of course, it makes our lives easier.\r\n\r\nBut it also makes our mobile phones more vulnerable and susceptible to being hacked if we don\u2019t take preventive actions nor some security measures.\r\n\r\nTherefore, this information and methods to find out if your mobile phone has been hacked is for you and for anyone that has a smartphone.\r\n\r\nYou may still have some questions and think that it is unlikely that someone has the intention of hacking your mobile phone. After all, you\u2019re not a celebrity nor a politician.\r\n\r\nOnce again, let me tell you that you\u2019re wrong! Anyone could be the target of a hacker attack<\/strong>. You don\u2019t need to be rich nor famous.\r\n\r\nOf course, those people with a higher economic, political, or social status will gain more attention from hackers.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAlso, you no longer need to be an expert in technology to spy another person. Anyone that has the right tools and mechanisms will be able to do it, regardless of whether it\u2019s legal or not.\r\n\r\nA few years ago, if anyone needed information about a person, they would hire a private investigator. That\u2019s right! Just like in old movies!\r\n\r\nIf anyone suspected that their significant other was being unfaithful, a private investigator would offer their service, follow the suspect, and take pictures to find out the truth.\r\n\r\nNowadays, those private detectives with raincoats and sunglasses have disappeared because you can now find out everything about a person by the digital tracks that they leave behind.\r\n\r\nInstead of saying the classic quote \u201cfollow that car\u201d, it should now be something like \u201cfollow that cell phone.\u201d Although it may sound funny, it\u2019s true!\r\n\r\nOur intention is not to make you feel unsafe whenever you use your mobile phone, nor to make you go to the extreme of become a paranoid by feeling that a hacker is spying or following you.\r\n\r\nOur mission is to inform you to help you make good decisions and preemptive actions so that you don\u2019t become a victim of computer spies, and to make you avoid saying that your mobile phone has been hacked.\r\n\r\nWe want you to have the information and tools to protect yourself or find out if your mobile phone has been hacked.\r\n