Q: I may have been hacked/compromised
I was signing into an app and a second after I logged in the screen went black > the apple logo (for about 2 seconds as if restarting) > Home screen. A reboot would be much longer and also I was able to use touch ID.
This has me worried I want to know if I was compromised for sure. NO I do not jailbreak my phone NO I am not on suspicious websites on Safari.
I opened up a JPEG file from Safari from a gmail account. I'm afraid maybe a trojan or malware was attached when I opened it and it spread to my phone with a key logger, possibly. No the JPEG was not a nude it was a fake cashier's check from a scam that I was fully aware of. I was just trying to see how far they would go so I was providing fake info and being "cooperative". I'm not a guru when it comes to this stuff I would really like some help and closure on this. Sure, I'll get a new iPhone 7 but I don't want it to spread to my network or my contacts' phones or my iCloud. My phone has a lot of sensitive information as well so I'm pulling my hair out trying to find out what happened to my phone. The behavior mentioned above has NEVER happened to me before. I have gotten the black screen of death a couple times but of course with new firmware it has since been resolved.
iPhone 5s, iOS 9.3.4, I have since updated to iOS 9.3.5
Posted on Sep 12, 2016 7:39 PM