juice jacking

juice jacking (uncountable)

1. The act of stealing information from mobile devices by placing a data-stealing device that appears to be a charging station in a place where passers-by are likely to plug their devices into it.
   • 2016, Zheng Yan, Refik Molva, Wojciech Mazurczyk and Raimo Kantola, Network and System Security, p. 201:

     In the Blackhat community, one type of charging attacks is called juice jacking attacks, which can access to a significant amount of personal data without the user's permission and can install hidden malicious software on the device, as long as the device is unlocked.