Apple iPhone owners beware — you're 167 times more likely to get hacked than other users

As smartphone hacking via third-party bugs increases (like WhatsApp-Pegasus case), a new study in Britain has discovered that iPhone owners are a whopping 167 times more at risk of being hacked than other mobile brands.The tech experts at UK-based phone case company Case24.com gathered the data by analysing monthly Google search volumes to see how many British people are looking to find information on how to hack different apps or smartphone brands. The total search volume for iPhones was 10,040 in Britain -- significantly higher than Samsung that came in second place with 700 searches. "LG, Nokia and Sony were the phones that hackers were least interested in, generating under 100 searches a month for each individual brand," reports goodtoknow.co.uk. Sony was at the bottom with just 50

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