Confidential information, photos, emails and call histories are at the fingertips of criminals who can break into your smartphone with the aid of a gadget available for sale on the internet.
Using the IP Box device, hackers are able to hack an Apple iPhone 5C in nearly six hours.
A successful hack can take anything from seconds to 17 hours.
America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation had been battling to access an iPhone device to gain information about a terrorist massacre.
The FBI fought a legal battle with Apple over the rights to obtain the smartphone of mass murderer Syed Farook, who died with his wife after the couple killed 14 people in December in San Bernardino California.
Apple have refused to hand over the code on the grounds that it would set a legal precedent for law officials to access the contents of millions of iPhones.
But the FBI announced last week it had finally broke the code after two months of stalemate with the multi-million US company.
What took the FBI weeks to unearth, the IP Box device could crack in a number of hours.
Although the iPhones are set to disable after five wrong attempts, the IP Box allows the hacker to persist.
iPads and mini iPads are also vulnerable to attack.
Company director of Fone Fun Shop Mark Strachan, 45, told the Mail: "We discovered the device via our Hong Kong office and were sceptical as to whether it would work but after testing we discovered it worked perfectly.
"We already supply forensic tools to law enforcement within the UK and worldwide and decided to introduce it into our line of products.
"There are certain scenarios where this kind of technology is needed to help people for the right reasons, it’s not all bad.”
He claimed to have helped "many” families who had a family member die unexpectedly gain access to sentimental photos on the locked device and others get hold of their phone book contacts.
This month they will start selling a new device that can crack into the latest Apple iPhone software, the iOS 9.
It is the same technology the FBI got access to crack the passcode on the San Bernardino device, says Mr Strachan.Apple have been approached for comment.
Although the IP Box is not an illegal product, it would be a criminal offence to use it to break into someone else’s iPhone under section 55 of the Data Protection Act 1998.
(dailystar.co.uk)
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