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Hacking?

Whilst on google I had a message pop up that looked like a legitimate Apple message saying my phone had been hacked, it had a option to press a protection button with a timer of 2 minutes counting down advising me to press to Quickly protect my iPhone. I didn’t however do this, but I’m worried has my phone been genuinely hacked?

Posted on Jul 8, 2020 3:29 AM

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Posted on Jul 8, 2020 3:31 AM

Phishing


iOS / iPadOS devices cannot be hacked or infected with Virus / Malware / Spyware if it is updated to latest iOS/iPadOS, unless you have intentionally downloaded spurious softwares or unauthorised apps directly from internet and installed on your device or/and have Jail Broken. 

It (Hacking) also depends on how careful are you in sharing sensitive and valuable informations of your iPhone such as Passcode, Password etc with your friends and family members.


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Jul 8, 2020 3:31 AM in response to Lydiabaxter1

Phishing


iOS / iPadOS devices cannot be hacked or infected with Virus / Malware / Spyware if it is updated to latest iOS/iPadOS, unless you have intentionally downloaded spurious softwares or unauthorised apps directly from internet and installed on your device or/and have Jail Broken. 

It (Hacking) also depends on how careful are you in sharing sensitive and valuable informations of your iPhone such as Passcode, Password etc with your friends and family members.


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