Even secretly getting information would require the owner to definitely accept something, visit a suspicious link or if the owner gave their phone to someone for something and they install an app on there which can take ur data.
All of it requires you, the owner to do something on your part to assist the hacker. As long as u don't do any of that and hand your phone only to trusted people, you shouldn't have any issues.
If you fear of being hacked, make sure to protect your phone with a password or fingerprint, whatever it allows to add to the protection and anti hacking.
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It really helped but my point is, not when someone else tries and take your phone, I'm asking like someone from anywhere in the world using high-class softwares and with the technology you get today to try and get personal information.
If someone is trying to get your personal information as much as the phone is a good place to start, its much harder to access it like i mentioned. Your social media accounts maybe a bigger area where people can get into and get information.
For that always use 2 step verification.
What that means in case u don't know is, after u enter the password to your social media account, your phone gets a code via sms, or sometimes your phone would get a notification saying was this you logging in?
Only when u confirm this notification that u can enter your social media account.
That way even if someone finds out your password, its much harder to log in without having access to the 2nd part of the log in that i just mentioned
Just to add, Samsung phones vs. Apple phones AND Android vs. iOS are two separate things. And there is no direct answer for either of those comparisons.
And don't think "hacking" is something so literal as shown in movies etc. We don't type codes just like that on a computer screen to do it. It is different in real life. And there is ethical hacking and non ethical hacking.
Anything is hackable for a skilled person. There is nothing like one is easily hackable and the other is not. It depends on whether or not the product/service user used it with proper security and privacy measures. Again security and privacy are two things. Unavoidably, all these stuff branch into many other topics as well. So there is no way anyone can give a direct answer.
If you take the literal term, hacking just means gaining access to data. It can be easy as unlocking a phone or using your neighbour's Wi-Fi router OR hard as accessing Pentagon's database.
In Apple eco-system EVERYTHING is linked to a user's Apple ID. If a hacker can get access to your Apple ID, he/she/they can easily access almost all your data. Samsung doesn't force the user to use Samsung account for everything, but still if you link your accounts on different web platforms etc. your data will be an easy target too. Gain access to one account... and everything else is compromised as well.
So as you probably understand, these branch into broader topics and cannot be simplified with easy or no.
All companies that use Android as the main OS in their devices, still have their OWN security and UI platforms built on top of the Android OS.
Samsung's security platform is called "Knox". They have a separate security chip called "SE" in their devices as well. SE chip has the highest security chip rating among ALL chips. Apple's security chip is called "Secure Enclave". Google's is "Titan M". They operate on top of their respective OS security too.
In addition, Samsung Knox has already beaten Apple security multiple times during Gartner (global research and advisory firm) researches, the most recent being last year's mobile threats and security research.
So it just all... depends...
Note: Android is an operating system made by Google and used by many other companies. That's because Android is open-source. Which means Android source code is freely available and anyone can develop their OWN stuff on top of it. Samsung is just one of those companies that use Android as the main OS in their devices, but this is not stock Android (pure Android). There are only a handful of devices that use stock Android. Samsung has tweaked the Android OS according to their needs, and used it in Samsung devices.
