Can a hacker recover deleted files from my mobile drive?

Question

I deleted some files from my phone (android 5). Can a hacker recover my files?

Related: https://security.stackexchange.com/q/12503/165253 and https://security.stackexchange.com/q/110734/165253 — forest, Dec 18 '18 at 04:07
"Hacker"? Do you mean remotely? Do you mean if someone gets access to your phone? Where did you store these videos? — schroeder, Dec 18 '18 at 09:15

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '18 at 09:31

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 it root

Can a hacker recover deleted files from my mobile drive?

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