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Your iPhone is a target for thieves. Do this to help protect your data

Your iPhone is a target for thieves. Do this to help protect your data

Taking a few precautions, you can dramatically reduce the fallout that comes with a lost or stolen handset.

A 53-year-old tech executive is suing Apple for $7.7 million for not recovering his photos after his iPhone was stolen.  Dominic Lorrimer

If you’re lucky, getting your iPhone stolen results only in a temporary headache. But that’s not the case for everyone.

Some people have had to deal with serious financial fallout, identity theft and the loss of years’ worth of personal data. Michael Mathews, who is suing Apple over access to his data, alleges that the theft of his iPhone and Apple’s withholding of the files stored in his iCloud account meant the end of his consulting business.

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