Someone hacked my personal hotspot remotely, changed the password and conencted to the internet. Sitting at home I noticed that someone had connected to my phone, when I wen to turn Personal Hotspot off I noticed that my password had been changed to something very weird. I didn't know it was possible to change the password remotely. Is there any way to prevent this from happening or to identify what has connected to my iPhone?
iPhone 4, iOS 6
I had the same problem. I have iOS 6 and the new iPhone 5 that I just got a few days ago. I turned on and tested my hotspot with my usual password and everything was fine. Last night I wanted to use my hotspot and to my surprise I had a new password "hacked2469".
Somebody managed to get into my phone and change my password. I also didn't know this was possible. I think Apple has a security leak in the phone.
Thanks NightNinjaPDX. No my phone is not jailbroken, all my apps are downloaded from iTunes. A third party app does seem likely. Although I haven't downloaded anything new recently my regular apps have issued updates. I guess I should inform Apple and give them a list of my apps.
Southroad, my phone suddenly had the pasword fear5777 on it! Here is a list of my non Apple apps, maybe you have one or tow of these on your list too, it could be the culprit:
BBC news
Wordbook
Tranlsate (Google)
Smart Shanghai
PS Express
Camera Bag
Colour Process
LED Tourch
Sunset & Sunrise
IMDb
Adobe Reader
Scan (QR codes)
We Chat
Kindle
Currency
Comic Zeal
Viber
The only App that I have in common with your list is Kindle. My phone is also not Jailbroken. Since yesterday when I turned on my hotspot and reset my password, nothing has changed, although I don't know exactly when it changed the last time.
Same issue happened to me, went to use my hotspot with my iPad, and the password was changed to "hacked(4 numbers)". I don't have my iphone jail broken and only same app I has as on list is IMBD. Very strange.
It could be the phone itself, and it could also be 3rd party apps you have downloaded as well. Are your phones jailbroken?
Someone hacked my personal hotspot
