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Q: Can the iPhone5 be hacked remotely by a hacker?

I work for a technology company and one of our employees shared an incident about her iPhone5 being hacked remotely. The hacker gained access to her device overnight while her phone was unlocked. The hacker watched her baby monitor video feed from the baby monitoring app  (including taking pictures and video from the device), posted about the baby to her FB account, browsed on Safari, including some searches of French books on amazon and Scott Trading sites. When I spoke with the mobile device team, they were not familiar with any iOS security gaps that would allow a hacker to remotely gain control of an iPhone, however, the activities on her device suggest that this is possible.

 

I found some articles from 2009 regarding a SMS virus that allowed hackers to gain remote access to a device, however, our mobile device team is certain that this gap would be closed by now.

 

Is anyone familiar with an existing security gap on the iPhone5? What would you recommend would be the next action for her? She is intending to delete her icloud account, change all her passwords and wipe her device.

iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.1

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 1:23 PM

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  • by KiltedTim,

    KiltedTim KiltedTim Mar 19, 2013 2:33 PM in response to suzanne3382
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    Mar 19, 2013 2:33 PM in response to suzanne3382

    It didn't happen. Plain and simple. Someone may have gained access to her PC, but not her phone.  I'd like to know what evidence she has of this.

  • by suzanne3382,

    suzanne3382 suzanne3382 Mar 19, 2013 8:47 PM in response to KiltedTim
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    Mar 19, 2013 8:47 PM in response to KiltedTim

    I had her check her Safari browser history and there were several sites that she had not visited - including specific titles of Amazon books. Additionally, she fell asleep with the phone next to her bed with the baby monitoring camera app running. When she woke up, Safari was open with a search of a person's name in Illinois. Not to mention, the baby monitoring app took photos and video (which has timestamps) while she was sleeping and is stored on her phone. The baby monitoring app does not run on her pc.

     

    It seems like the general consensus is that the iPhone 5 cannot be hacked and controlled remotely. While her FB and other sites can be run from her pc, you can't refute the evidence on the phone itself.

  • by KiltedTim,

    KiltedTim KiltedTim Mar 20, 2013 4:04 AM in response to suzanne3382
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    Mar 20, 2013 4:04 AM in response to suzanne3382

    This doesn't sound like anything more complicated than butt-dialing would be. The phone was sitting next to her on the bed with an app open.  No one hacked it. She did something while asleep to cause that to happen.

  • by suzanne3382,

    suzanne3382 suzanne3382 Mar 20, 2013 6:52 AM in response to KiltedTim
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    Mar 20, 2013 6:52 AM in response to KiltedTim

    Well then her butt deserves an award for being able to type and spell correctly several words on her FB page.

  • by KiltedTim,

    KiltedTim KiltedTim Mar 20, 2013 7:09 AM in response to suzanne3382
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    Mar 20, 2013 7:09 AM in response to suzanne3382

    If the phone isn't jailbroken, it wasn't hacked. She needs to consider another explanation for what she's seeing.

  • by FatMansoor,

    FatMansoor FatMansoor Apr 14, 2013 5:03 AM in response to suzanne3382
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    Apr 14, 2013 5:03 AM in response to suzanne3382

    Yes, iPhone is quite easy to hack. 

     

    Apple should close this down in the next release of iOS.

     

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  • by mcguirede,

    mcguirede mcguirede May 30, 2013 2:30 PM in response to suzanne3382
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    May 30, 2013 2:30 PM in response to suzanne3382

    I too have notice strange occurance on my Iphone 5 the past few weeks.  I will be at work and my Iphone will be sitting on the desk and it will start opening apps.  mail, safri, facebook etc and typing.  I called Apple support and they basically didn't believe me, case number 447114986. The tech had me close all apps, and do a reset on my phone. said if that didn't fix it to do a restore.  It did it again today, I watched it open safari, do a google search. It then opened a search on my phone.  I killed the power, geuss the restore is in order. 

  • by mcguirede,

    mcguirede mcguirede May 30, 2013 2:31 PM in response to suzanne3382
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    May 30, 2013 2:31 PM in response to suzanne3382

    Pretty sure mine was today

  • by realgingerella,

    realgingerella realgingerella Jun 7, 2013 7:56 AM in response to suzanne3382
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    Jun 7, 2013 7:56 AM in response to suzanne3382

    Maybe this is minute, but someone keeps stealing the diamonds from my hayday farm. I know I'm not using them by mistake, as my husband suggested. At first it was a few at a time. I had 10 diamonds when I closed and when I came back I only had 5. I thought it was possible that I may have inadvertently touched something by accident. But the last time I left the farm with 11 diamonds and came back to 0. The phone was not in my purse since I hadn't gone anywhere that afternoon. It was on the side of my bed. Who would do something like that? Monsters. You can say what you want, I know my apple stuff gets hacked. Apple shouldn't be so smug about it.

  • by tonefox,

    tonefox tonefox Jun 7, 2013 11:07 AM in response to realgingerella
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    Jun 7, 2013 11:07 AM in response to realgingerella

    Your diamonds and your hayday farm, whatever that is, do not live on your phone. They are on a server somewhere used by the game. That might get hacked.

     

    The answer is universal: change your password.

  • by realgingerella,

    realgingerella realgingerella Jun 7, 2013 12:54 PM in response to tonefox
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    Jun 7, 2013 12:54 PM in response to tonefox

    They're alive??! *snickering*

     

    No need to be snippy with the tech challenged. I've had this phone for two weeks and I have to lock my entire life like Fort Knox.

  • by tonefox,

    tonefox tonefox Jun 7, 2013 2:08 PM in response to realgingerella
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    Jun 7, 2013 2:08 PM in response to realgingerella

    Snicker away. My advice was at all snippy. Your iPhone is probably the most secure device you own.  Feel free to continue with you own tech challenged paranoia.

  • by realgingerella,

    realgingerella realgingerella Jun 7, 2013 2:34 PM in response to tonefox
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    Jun 7, 2013 2:34 PM in response to tonefox

    I wasn't disagreeing with you about the the remote server. I simply hadn't considered it. My apologies if my tone was snarky. I did like the idea of my diamonds being alive. If you can find no humor in that, we'lljust have to agree to disagree.

  • by Jlawless1984,

    Jlawless1984 Jlawless1984 Jun 9, 2013 10:21 PM in response to realgingerella
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    Jun 9, 2013 10:21 PM in response to realgingerella

    Realgingerella first off, I don't know you but I do know that I love when you can feel like you understand a persons personality by the way they speak in these kind of threads. That being said, you crack me up! Also, to the remote server being hacked, I'm tech savvy with phones to a certain degree and I have had to do research to discover that because, I too have hay day and those **** diamonds are *****! Real money for these treats I allow myself to enjoy and they will be gone by about 10-30% sometimes and I treat them with conservative ways. So not everyone thinks of these things we just think, who the **** store our diamonds lol..

     

    Tonefox, she wasn't snickering.

     

    Had to throw my input in their because I laughed out loud when I read through this!! Thank you

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