Last week my phone stolen, i enabled lost mode which was pending until it was connected to a network. Today i got a msg from apple saying that my phone was switched onn and below there was a link to track my phone so i clicked it. It requested my password and passcode and then boom a notification popped which said find ny phone has been disabled.
I wanted to share it here so that others wouldn't fall into the bait.
You were fooled by a phishing message.
That didn't come from Apple. It came from the thief who has your stolen device.
When you used the link to 'log in', you gave them the credentials for your iCloud account, allowing them to remove the activation lock.
You will never see that phone again.
Change your Apple ID password RIGHT NOW!
You were fooled by a phishing message.
That didn't come from Apple. It came from the thief who has your stolen device.
When you used the link to 'log in', you gave them the credentials for your iCloud account, allowing them to remove the activation lock.
You will never see that phone again.
Change your Apple ID password RIGHT NOW!
Moiz Shujauddin: Thanks for posting about your (unfortunate) experience with the loss of your device.
This case is fairly common for lost or stolen devices, unfortunately. Phishing us. We ourselves are easier to hack than our devices. Text messages, and telephone calls, and variously callers even claiming to be the police have all been reported as tactics to try to get our Apple ID credentials, for instance. These groups automate the credentials-collecting websites, too.
SravanKra: As for the title of this thread, iPhone and iPad can be hacked, even on current versions. It’s rare, but it happens. Apple usually the releases a patch, as the exploits become known and vulnerabilities are remediated. But there are always new vulnerabilities discovered and variously exploited, or we wouldn’t be getting on-going patches from Apple. But in this case as with the majority of “hacked” or “virus” cases we see posted around here, we ourselves got hacked. Not our devices.
Moiz Shujauddin: If you think your Apple ID has been compromised - Apple Support — yours obviously has been compromised, which means all your other passwords are quite possibly exposed too, if you’re using iCloud Keychain.
Some related info on scams:
Scam Pop-ups, Scam Viruses, Scam Receipts… - Apple Community
Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support
If you fell for the scam to steal your Apple ID and password it’s too late now to recover anything. Change your Apple ID password immediately. Also, the criminals now have all the data that you synced to iCloud or backed up, so if it included any passwords change them, and if it included any credit or debit cards cancel them.
iOS / iPadOS devices cannot be hacked or infected with Virus / Malware / Spyware if it is updated to the latest iOS/iPadOS unless you have intentionally downloaded spurious software or unauthorized apps directly from the 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 information pertaining to your iPhone such as Passcode, Password etc with your friends and family members.
Be careful when sharing the device's sensitive and valuable information with friends and family members.
Thumb Rules:
This is phishing
Yes, it’s spear phishing. But the end result is that Activation Lock has been turned off on the phone and all personal data in iCloud is now in the hands of criminals, and those are the only facts that are important in this situation.
Hackers disabled find my iPhone of my stolen phone
