I was browsing webs in safari and when I got into a website, it said that I got hacked. It said all my contacts will be deleted and that I need to call apple support with the blue link under it. It seems legit and it had like a setting icon on the top corner. I am freaking out. I restarted my iPhone and deleted my safari history. Did I get hacked?
iPhone XS
You did exactly the right thing. This was a phishing attempt.
Apple will never pop up in the middle of what you are doing in such a manner. As long as you didn't type your Apple ID and password in response to this pop-up, you were not successfully attacked.
You did exactly the right thing. This was a phishing attempt.
Apple will never pop up in the middle of what you are doing in such a manner. As long as you didn't type your Apple ID and password in response to this pop-up, you were not successfully attacked.
Obviously, a website cannot tell if your device has been compromised in any way - it DOES know what operating system and browser that you have from the User Agent data that all browsers send to websites
Avoid phishing emails, fake 'virus' alerts, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support
You might meet a phishing scam website.
This is frequently happened cheating phenomenon.
When you browser a legal site, you suddenly directed to another site, noticing you you were hacked.
Sometimes, it will ask you to download some app or make some actions on your iphone.
Once you have everything done, you are truly get hacked.
From my perspective, you just need to make sure your system is updated to the latest version and make sure you don't browse any suspicious website. The sandbox of iOS won't let your information breach that easily.
Hope it helps.
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