If you thought wiping your mobile phone once to delete its contents, or having a passcode to protect it from prying eyes was enough, think again.

Meet the ultimate mobile phone data extractor, a $40,000 Israeli-made machine manufactured by Cellebrite and used by private investigator Navid Sobbi's business National Surveillance and Intelligence and numerous law-enforcement agencies around the word.

The machine can crack passwords and extract varying degrees of data from almost every smartphone on the market bar a number of Blackberry models and the iPhone 5 and above. Photos, texts, locations and more can be extracted from the phone's memory even if previously wiped.

In total, the device claims to be able to extract varying degrees of data from about 8000 phone models. Newer iPhones are not susceptible to the password cracking because Apple's encryption methods have improved over time, but