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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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.

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.

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.

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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