iPhone keeps getting hacked ( help )

can127 wrote:

Thank you for the answer.

I didnt expect to resolve this here but I just don’t know what to do it otherwise. I thought maybe apple technicians might be interested in fixing this..

Absent detailed forensic evidence and that seemingly lacking here, there’s nothing to fix.

So you went thru the trouble of changing numbers, but you've never changed your Apple ID password?

That is the first thing you should do.

Access to your Apple ID could explain browsing history being known.. For example I can go to my MacBook or my iPad and open tabs that I was browsing on my iPhone.

I've received similar looking text messages before too. My phone is not hacked. It's just spam. Some people get more than others I'm sure depending on how careful they are with their info. You can avoid seeing some of that by going to Settings > Messages and turning on the switch for Filter Unknown Senders

Change your Apple ID password - Apple Support

If you think your Apple ID has been compromised - Apple Support

None of this is going to get resolved here.

Being on the network, with our access patterns and habits variously sold by carriers, with being connected to social media indirectly (like and share buttons, etc) or connected directly to social media intent on tracking and reselling and targeting us—folks then seeking to provide us with endless quantities of spam—are the cause, and not the result.

Being the target of a sophisticated and targeted and immensely expensive attack is perversely far more comforting than the far more mundane answer of what has been called end-stage capitalism, with endemic regulatory capture, and with vanishingly few conflicting regulations, and of somebody that very well might simply subscribing you to harassment and related through knowledge and potentially the assistance of friendly intermediaries, or of gaslighting, of course.

Where there have been security issues, that’s often been around password reuse, lack of multi-factor authentication, compromised email accounts. Getting targeted for spam is nasty, as changing your numbers can be difficult, and can be ineffective. As you have found. And in a number of cases, the relatives and “friends” are indirectly or directly involved in providing your information to others, if not directly involved in the harassment.

Which can mean muting all unrecognized senders, among other workarounds.

Or legal assistance, as harassment and related can be civil or legal matters.

Harassment and doxxing and worse is a serious problem. Too many women deal with gaslighting and other forms of abuse, and worse, and far too often. Dealing with exploited iPhones, for the vast majority of us, not so much.

Some reading: https://help.apple.com/pdf/personal-safety/en_US/personal-safety-user-guide.pdf

PS: if you really, actually, are targeted with NSO-level exploitation tools as extremely unlikely as that would be, you really need better sources of information, assistance, and security advice than what a random unknown person in the forums—such as myself—might offer.

It is literally impossible for a text message to hack a device. Norton is completely, utterly useless, as is any other AV software.

This someone, whoever it is, knows the Apple ID and password of each family member. By logging into any of their iCloud accounts, they can see every picture, email, contact data and other personal info of each family member. That's now they're picking up any new phone number. They wait until another family member updates their contact with your new number, and then they have it, too.

You all need to find out who else is connected to your accounts and kick them off. Changing your passwords simultaneously may help.

It's not Pegasus. That hacking software costs millions of dollars. Do you think you have info on your phone worth that much money that someone would pay for it just to get your data? On top of that, Apple has already blocked the Pegasus exploit.

I won't spend any more of my time here. But good luck.

I can’t see any sign of other logins to my any accounts including Apple I’d .

I'll throw out one more. You say you've checked your account for other devices connected to your account and found none.

There is one way to do that. Windows software exists that allows the user to login to an iCloud account and view that person's data as a regular file/folder view. Since this is not being done from a Mac, iPad or iPhone, iCloud does not see, or report another device for the account.

But!, even then, the person still needs to know both your Apple ID and password.

I changed my iCloud and my other accounts several times. There is no way she could find out every single one of them and know the password for them.

She can if someone you know keeps giving it to her.

Or, (though I would think you've already checked this) your phone has been jailbroken without your knowledge. This requires direct access to your phone, knowing your passcode so they can get to the desktop, and at least 30 minutes beyond that. Then all bets are off as all kinds of junk can be installed to track your phone. As one such possible tool, do you see an app named Cydia?

Not even my wife knows my iCloud accounts dude how is someone gonna give it to her ?

It was a suggestion. A possibility. Not a statement of fact. As was the suggestion of the phone possibly being jailbroken. From your response, that is highly unlikely.