There was an invited guest describing how her phone had been grabbed, while she was in mid call, by a thief on a bike and it happened so fast he was gone before she knew what had happened.
As said, the feature was warning about the growth of stealing an unlocked phone in order to access banking apps. It was an alarming prospect and I was anticipating hearing how the victims bank account had been emptied but in fact the guests monetary loss was not this but the use of her chip and pin card which was tucked inside her phone case
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Nevertheless I looked at each of the money related apps on my phone of which there are 4 and if I select "forgotten password" they all ask for some information which the thief wouldn't know. Username, email address, account number etc
How much of a risk is it having banking apps on phones and what protective measures over 2FA need to be taken?
One really useful nugget of information on the programme was the emergency telephone number 159 which can be used to quickly contact any bank to report fraudulent activity. It's now stored in my phone.