Q: My Mac is Hacked! Encryption Help Please!
My Mac Pro is hacked, and this is confirmed by engineers. Because the Mail app and even online ISP mail were not working so good the ISP kicked the hackers out. I found Sparse files on 240 and 480 GB Intel SSD drives in T2 external disk slots: files named 'sparse disk image...' and 'sparse disk bundle...' were appearing in the root of drives. I could easily delete them. But I never put them there. At the same time, Apple Mail app kept resetting ports 993/587 (secure) to ports 143/25 (very insecure). Mail font size 23pt appeared, Font Book listings corrupted, file extensions would not appear or would disappear, etc., etc., etc. The internet connection got bad too, so I called my ISP. ISP found twelve (12) windows computers using various apps on my system. None of the computers were using languages found where I live. Hackers. I also have an Airport with a 2 TB Time Capsule, and it is probably also hijacked. Nothing in my system is encrypted. I just use Firewall, though it gets turned off somehow.
Apple senior advisor suggested I should encrypt my disks. But those sparse files were already there. Indicating someone somewhere on Earth was already encrypting files on my system. The advisor says sparse files are a pretty good indication that its time to get more proactive. So my plan is to use disk utility to wipe my internal OS disk, OS X Extended (Journaled Encrypted). Then install OS X on the EAS-256 bit encrypted disk.
For anyone with Mac encryption experience
1.) Does encrypting and installing OS X to encrypted disk make sense?
2.) How do I wipe all present Airport Time Capsule content, encrypt Time Capsule, and use it with my encrypted system?
3.) How do I encrypt external enclosure disks and use them with encrypted Time Capsule and encrypted internal disk?
4.) How do I manually copy files from encrypted disks (mainly the external SSD disks) to other backup disks that are normally cold (disconnected) for monthly cold backups"
5.) Do monthly cold copies stay unencrypted?
Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), MacBook Pro - iPhone6+ - Power PC
Posted on Sep 3, 2016 10:33 PM
