Someone hacked my iPhone and reset it. They not only clear all data but also change the owner name and marked it as lost. Now i cannot have access to my phone and they are blackmailing me.
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Your phone was not “hacked”. You either allowed someone to log in to your phone with their Apple account, you gave someone the credentials for your Apple account, or your Apple account was compromised.
See this article: If you think your Apple Account has been compromised - Apple Support
If you can not regain access to your Apple account, you will have to provide Apple with the original proof of purchase for the device to have the activation lock removed.
If you can’t do either of those things, take it to the police or toss it in the recycle bin at your local electronics store. There is no way to bypass the activation lock.
Your phone was not “hacked”. You either allowed someone to log in to your phone with their Apple account, you gave someone the credentials for your Apple account, or your Apple account was compromised.
See this article: If you think your Apple Account has been compromised - Apple Support
If you can not regain access to your Apple account, you will have to provide Apple with the original proof of purchase for the device to have the activation lock removed.
If you can’t do either of those things, take it to the police or toss it in the recycle bin at your local electronics store. There is no way to bypass the activation lock.
Your phone cannot be hacked unless you were tricked into providing the Passcode, Apple ID and Password for your phone.
If what you say is true......at this point, the phone is useless to you.
If you give in and pay the "ransom", there is still absolutely no guarantee that you will be able to use the phone.....unless you happen to trust the people who are scamming you.
Accept this as an unfortunate learning experience and never give out any personal information about your replacement phone.
If you feel an unauthorized person/app is remotely using, controlling or monitoring your device, then that is possible only if you have done one or more of the following Don'ts...
If one of the above is true then quickly change the Apple ID Password and Return iPhone settings to their defaults.
Keep the iPhone updated to the latest iOS always and never Jailbreak. That's it.
iOS / iPadOS devices cannot be hacked or infected with Virus / Malware / Spyware *** unless you have intentionally downloaded spurious software or unauthorized apps directly from the internet and installed them on your device or/and have Jailbroken.
It (Hacking) also depends on how careful you are in sharing sensitive and valuable information pertaining to your iPhone such as Passcode, Password, etc with your friends and family members.
Be judicious when sharing the device's sensitive and valuable information with friends and family members.
**The primary reason for this is Sandboxing. All third-party apps are “sandboxed”, so they are restricted from accessing files stored by other apps or from making changes to the device. Sandboxing is designed to prevent apps from gathering or modifying information stored by other apps.
Security of runtime process in iOS and iPadOS - Apple Support
The sandbox on an iPhone is a security feature that creates a restricted environment for each app to run in isolation from other apps and the operating system. It is a core component of iOS's security architecture and plays a crucial role in making iPhones more secure.
If you doubt the authenticity of the information provided earlier, you have two alternatives:
How can I regain access to my hacked iPhone?
