Hacked product photos when online shopping in safari

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Hacked product photos when online shopping in safari

This morning, when shopping online via Safari on my iPhone 4S, a very weird thing happened. On several sites (bestbuy.com, jcpenney.com and oldnavy.com) some of the product photos were replaced by random candid shots unrelated to the product. They aren't my photos, just random ones. For instance, on the jcpenney.com site, I was looking at women's tops and on one of the products it shows a pic of a man and a woman instead of the product and the photo is MIT the same size as the other thumbnails, etc. On Bestbuy.com specifically http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/catalog/list.jsp?id=abcat0401000 the Nikon Coolpix orange is showing a picture of a man. When you click on the listing, it goes to the correct product page and has the correct photos. So.....what the heck is going on? Is this a virus? It would just be too much of a coincidence for all of their sites to be hacked so it must be my phone.

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 6:06 AM

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thomas_r.

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Feb 19, 2013 8:09 AM in response to heidilu73

I am not seing what you describe on that site (though I'm also not seeing an orange Nikon Coolpix), so this looks like it's specific to you.

Have you jailbroken your phone? If so, anything is possible, but we're not allowed to help you with that here. If not, this issue cannot be malware.

Most likely, I would guess that there's an issue with your network. Was this happening while you were connected to a wireless network, or while on the cellular network? If the former, does it happen on other wireless networks? If the latter, do you see the same issue if you connect to a wireless network and use that instead?

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