Erase Personal Data From Second-Hand Devices or Risk Fraud, Warns Security Watchdog

Erase Personal Data From Second-Hand Devices or Risk Fraud, Warns Security Watchdog
An online shopper searches different sites, on Dec. 12, 2016. AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee
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Britain’s national cybersecurity watchdog has advised anyone buying or selling a second-hand electronic device to erase personal data or risk hacking and fraud.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said in a statement on Monday that it is not only mobile phones that pose a security risk in which people could be inadvertently “gifting a great opportunity to thieves and hackers.”