Ipad Hacked - I watched somebody go into my contacts and browse around

I don't approve of making fun of people for grammar issues, so please understand I'm not trying to make fun here... please, please, in the future, use some punctuation! Both your posts on this topic are nearly unreadable due to lack of punctuation of any kind (except for one single comma).

To address a few specific points...

not to long ago a reporter had his entire life stolen from his apple account

I assume you're referring to Mat Honan's hacking incident. If so, that is not really relevant to this topic, as it did not involve any actual malware.

a report came out that it is becomeing easy to become infected while visitng a benine website just the other day a security flaw was exposed in safri and ios7

I'm not sure what report you're referring to that says it's easy to become infected... there's still no known malware capable of infecting any iOS device that hasn't been jailbroken or been physically accessed by a malicious individual.

Regarding the SSL security flaw, that again had nothing to do with malware. It had to do with security of data being transmitted over the internet. Again, no relevance to this topic.

be carful of the apps you use an andriod app became malware after a update this is the problem just because apple verifies an app there is nothing to stop the programer from changing its primary function

Android is very, very different from iOS, and the Android marketplace is far less secure than the App Store. In iOS, a developer cannot change the code in any way without resubmitting an update to Apple for review. It is theoretically possible for an app to display different behavior at a later date, but it must do so using the same code, which means that Apple's probably going to catch it. Especially since someone already did a proof-of-concept of this sort of thing, so Apple will be more vigilant to that now.

Still, this is a good point... just because an app isn't malware doesn't mean it should be trusted with your data. You should think carefully before allowing any app access to any of your data. Apps should have access only to what they need to do the job that you want them to do, and no more. Fortunately, this is entirely within your control on iOS.

Actually, I like Apple as much as the rest of you do. However, recently I have witnessed two events that do point to the fact that somebody has found yet another back door into apple devices. I cannot say for certain how he is doing it but he has done it twice now. We know the guys name is Jake and he has broken into an iPad and an iPhone.

In the middle of the night the owner of an iPhone would be woke up by her cell phone turning on. The person would go through her contacts and delete emails from the device it self. The hacker later broke into her CC withdrew 500 bucks and canceled a bunch purchases. He was some how intercepting and alter iMessages. We knew he was doing it when the original messages would appear usually within 12 to 24 hours later. This went on for two weeks. We hired a guy to track this guy down. When we got close he closed up all the whole on the device and stopped his attacks.

The second more recent incident happened today. The owner of an iPad was using trillian. He almost didn't realize it was going on until he asked me a very weird question. "Did I see text being what appeared to be copied and pasted?". I was no. I can't say that I did. The next thing I know the owner of the iPhone IM'd and say she was being harassed by a guy on Trillian. He was coping and pasting text from our chat to her. About 3 hrs later Jake confessed to being good at breaking into iPad's and IPhones and made a comment about how the iPad user had an iPad. That is the last we have seen of him. The owner of the iPad vanished from online shortly afterwards.

To my knowledge none of the devices were jail broken by the owners. If the OS had been compromised it was by external sources.

Pretty much everything you have described are symptoms of having online accounts hacked by a determined attacker, not having the device itself hacked.

I have gotten the same like you and I reset my ipad to factory setting. And it's seen help. I notice that when I am playing pòollive 2 snooker something blinking and later on I was hack like you got. So I have never ever download that kind of online game. Online game is looks like you share the screens. I thought it got a hack from that game.

Hi. So, I have an iPad Pro and I was just on FaceTime with my boyfriend (who lives in another country) and as we were chatting, a message came up at the top of the screen briefly saying something like, "hold the camera closer so we can...". I thought it was a message my boyfriend had sent so I went into iMessage and Facebook messenger (as they are the only two message apps I have) and there was no message there. I asked him and he said he hadnt sent me a message at all. So, somebody has accessed my iPad Pro camera?? ***. What a scary thought....so I googled and found this thread. Any updates from anybody on how to prevent this from happening?

Thanks 🙂

Unless your iPad has been jailbroken, no one has accessed your camera. Without more information, it's a bit difficult to say what actually did happen but your device has not been hacked. If you have concerns that your Apple ID may have been compromised, change your password and implement two-factor authentication.

iOS is not infallable / unhackable. An exploit was found that allowed hackers to gain unlimited access to your iPad or iPhone (NOT jailbroken) that bypassed security / sandboxing just by the user viewing / downloading a malicious TIFF file in iOS9. It was patched but there is no guarantee that there arent other exploits like this out there.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/22/stagefright-flaw-ios-iphone-imessage- apple

Another where clicking a malicious link on a website would immediately jailbreak your iOS device.

www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/704148/iPhone-iOS-9-3-5-Update-N ow-Cyber-Espionage-Ha

Okay, I see what you mean. Thank you. I hope that was it. I checked the shortcut and it is empty. I will keep an eye on it.

What's jailbroken mean ?