Tips To Use Wi-Fi: Free Wi-Fi can cause big loss, your personal data can be stolen along with banking...

Today, the Internet is playing an important role in our lives. We need the internet for many things. It is also used for downloading anything or for online payment.

As we see, now more people like to watch movies or series on OTT platforms on mobile phones than watching movies on TV channels.

In such a situation, many times people like to use free Wi-Fi to save their internet data. Let us tell you that when you connect Wi-Fi to your system (mobile, laptop), you may face many problems.

Free Wi-Fi can cause harm
Actually, once Wi-Fi and the device are connected, there is a risk of data theft. This risk increases in free Wi-Fi. Many hackers hack the personal data of free Wi-Fi users along with their banking data.

Free Wi-Fi is often available in public places. In such a situation, there is a risk of the phone getting hacked by connecting the phone to Wi-Fi. There are many types of loopholes in these Wi-Fi through which hackers can hack and leak your phone or bank account data.

How do hackers hack phones?
Whenever our phone is connected to a Wi-Fi router, hackers hack the MAC address and IP address through the loophole. After hacking them, hackers transfer the data packets present in your phone.

By intercepting these packets, hackers can check your browsing history. This makes your data easily accessible to them.

How to protect your phone from being hacked
You should never use free Wi-Fi. Do not connect your device to Wi-Fi which does not have a password. If you connect the phone to such a device, then you should take special care that you do not do any bank-related work at that time.

This means do not do any transactions using free Wi-Fi. If you do such transactions then hackers can access your bank account.

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