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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

252 replies

Sep 3, 2013 6:48 AM in response to applefreak77

Hi,

I've read your post and seems that I've been having the same issue.

What happening so far? Did the hard reset work?

Cheers

KiltedTim

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Dec 10, 2013 2:14 PM in response to thirdbaseangel

Pictures or it didn't happen.

Bhodi03

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Dec 28, 2013 1:56 PM in response to applefreak77

My partner went through my phone and found conversations and also pics in kik. I didnt write or send these. Has my iphone been hacked?

KiltedTim

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Mar 28, 2014 1:13 PM in response to mlct

No. It's a defective touch-screen.

KiltedTim

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May 26, 2014 5:18 AM in response to eborz

If you actually believe that's true, call the police. If it's true, that's a felony.

Nov 20, 2014 11:04 PM in response to brandyfrommooresville

Im pretty sure my ex and her son put something on my iPhone as it was sending out text messages to "imp" something or another. I formatted the iPhone and restored it as a new phone but something still doesn't seem right with the phone. I have a white 4s that's jail broke and I load it with the backups from the 5 that's not j/b. Now I can access every file that's on that phone to see if it's been tampered with. Also I installed a legitimate program on my Mac called Xcode which is prime rely used by people who build apps. once you open up the program you plug your phone in and it monitors everything that's going on with your phone. The Console screen shows every error/message the iPhone is dealing with at that particular time.

Lexiepex

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Jul 14, 2014 12:27 AM in response to Community User

Well, we can not discuss the jailbroken phone as is clearly stated in the Forum Terms Of Use. You must find your help elsewhere.

PS: if you did the jailbreak with a Mac, your Mac is compromised too.

drowl

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Nov 5, 2014 3:33 AM in response to suzanne3382

Twice in the past week I have awakened in the middle of the night to find my 4s iphone camera on. My iphone was locked.

tonefox

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Nov 5, 2014 3:47 AM in response to drowl

Take a good look at the Lock Screen. The camera can be opened (while the phone is locked) by sliding up the camera icon at the bottom right corner. You're probably doing it as you pick the phone up.

drowl

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Nov 5, 2014 11:07 AM in response to tonefox

Tonefox, you are a fox. Thank you. Odds are that is exactly what I am doing. Whew! Owl

Jan 30, 2015 2:53 PM in response to moienappleuser

moienappleuser wrote:

The same hacking happened to my iphone 5 last weekend

It is far more likely that it is a hardware issue than hacking.

Jan 30, 2015 3:01 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Its about one year old phone, more seem like software/security issue..

Jan 30, 2015 5:42 PM in response to moienappleuser

moienappleuser wrote:

Its about one year old phone, more seem like software/security issue..

The age of the phone is irrelevant. What you're describing sounds like a bad digitizer.

Feb 9, 2015 11:29 AM in response to Concerned123456

Same thing happening to me! How did you fix it?

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Feb 22, 2015 7:15 AM in response to pbunny3

The only person here using the word idiot is you.

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