Smartphone users lose cryptocurrency tokens after getting them repaired

Interface of a cryptocurrency app on a smartphone. Photo by VnExpress/Luu Quy

Smartphone users have lost thousands of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency tokens after having their phones fixed by third-parties; and there seems no way to get them back.

When he brought his Android smartphone home following a trip to the store to fix its screen, Van Thang found that $83,000 worth of his cryptocurrency tokens had disappeared.

"My phone suddenly turned off as I was using it. When I brought it to a store to fix, the employees there said the screen was damaged and needed to be replaced. They told me to wait for half a day. I didn't think much about it, I gave them my phone and went home," said Thang, a resident of the central Quang Ngai Province.

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