Consiglio: Avoid charging your phone from charging stations in public areas as it can be easily hacked into (juice jacking)

“Juice jacking” is a kind of cyber attack when an unknown user (on the other end) can use your charging wire as a data connection and either extract data or plant malicious files/software

This should apply to other electronics like tabs and laptops too I figure.

Also there's something called a USB condom that you can use to prevent this if you must charge it outside