I deleted some files from my phone (android 5). Can a hacker recover my files?
In a word, yes.
Thought it wouldn't take a "hacker" ... just anyone with knowledge of how to recover deleted files from a file system. Most apple geniuses
or Best Buy Geek Squad
members could do this in there free time if they wanted to.
- If you encrypted your phone's hard drive it will be much harder.
- If your files are on a non-encrypted SD card ... it will be trivially easy.
- If you mean a rogue app doing this remotely ... it depends on if it has
root
or an exploit that can give itroot
maleware
tag? – CaffeineAddiction Dec 18 '18 at 9:35