answer:Yes of course it can be hacked. Of course this depends heavily upon the type of smartphone you have. Basically, whether you have an iPhone or not. This is because iPhones are MUCH more defensible against hacking, and they are inherently difficult to hack, or even install malware on. Disclaimer on that, however is the advent of a recent app that surfaced in the past couple weeks that made it through Apple’s certification process disguised as a harmless game, but once downloaded would unleash a nasty virus on the iOS. This has sense been quashed, so you should have no worries on that now, just fair warning to take care when downloading apps in the future on an iPhone. It’s not completely invulnerable. Now then, if you don’t have an iPhone, (in other words you most likely have an Android, or God forbid a Microsoft platform phone).... you aren’t quite as safe. Those phones tend to be easier to hack, and malware is more common on those phones. Of course, if your phone is jailbroken or ‘rooted’, then you stand a much higher risk as well. So the short answer I guess is, YUP your phone can be hacked. How to protect yourself? Try as best as you can to have an iPhone. Don’t ever plug your phone into an unfamiliar device. Don’t mess around on unsecured wi-fi networks, don’t download an app if you have any doubt to its trustworthiness. Don’t be dumb browsing the web (same applies for PC behavior). And you’ll be fine. Cheerio!