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exploitation attempt in junk mail

I received a junk email from someone claiming to have successfully hacked my phone through an adult video site. The person identified an old password I used to use, said that they had video and screen recordings from my phone on the day I visited the adult video site. This person is threatening to expose those recordings to my contacts if I do not pay them $1017 in bitcoin... Has anyone experienced anything like this? What did you do?

iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 12

Posted on Aug 7, 2020 8:33 AM

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Posted on Aug 7, 2020 8:36 AM

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.


Be careful when sharing the device's sensitive and valuable informations with friends and family members.

Thumb Rules:

  1. Don't share Apple IDs
  2. Don't Jail Break
  3. Don't share sensitive informations pertaining to your device and payment methods
  4. Beware of Phishing


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Aug 7, 2020 8:36 AM in response to april1731

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.


Be careful when sharing the device's sensitive and valuable informations with friends and family members.

Thumb Rules:

  1. Don't share Apple IDs
  2. Don't Jail Break
  3. Don't share sensitive informations pertaining to your device and payment methods
  4. Beware of Phishing


exploitation attempt in junk mail

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