Low-cost Android phones are secretly sending your messages and contacts to China

Low-cost Android phones are secretly sending your messages and contacts to China

The company sold over five million smartphones in the US alone last year.

By Zack Whittaker | November 15, 2016 -- 17:40 GMT (09:40 PST) | Topic: Security

Fears of backdoors in Chinese smartphones just became a reality to millions of users.

Security researchers have found preinstalled software in some Android phones that monitors a user's contacts, messages, and locations -- and every three days, sends that data to China, according to The New York Times, which first covered the story.

You heard that right.

[link to www.zdnet.com]