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iPhone hacked or virus! Text messages gone and phone freezing!

CALL APPLE SUPPORT ASAP IF YOU HAVE THIS ISSUE!!!! They don't respond to these discussions!

(800) MY-IPHONE (800-694-7466)


My wife and I woke up this morning with a text message on both our iPhone 5 and 4s (running on Sprint) for $10 for Microsoft Office. We did not click on the text, but our text message app crashed. Then our texts disappeared and reappeared after rebooting, and we deleted the suspicious text but could not access any of our other texts.


It has been hours later and we can't text and our messages are there and then gone, our phone keeps on freezing on other apps, and my iPhone 5 screen is flickering. We both received another $10 Microsoft Office text and were able to delete it again.


We have rebooted, turned off, let the phone rest 30 minutes off, etc. and our phones are still worthless. They appear to work for a while and then start acting up again.


I called Apple (800) MY-IPHONE (800-694-7466) and spoke to a senior customer assistant, Brittney, who said I was the only person reporting this problem. I told her there were threads here with the exact same issues and she told me they don't respond to problems reported here since it is just a discussion board and only do something if you call them. She suggested for me to do a full restore to factory setting on my phone but showed no real concern why this happened to our phones...


Our phones either have been hacked or have a virus and this is a huge issue! If you have this problem, please call Apple ASAP.

iPhone 5

Posted on Jul 29, 2013 8:51 AM

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Jul 29, 2013 8:33 PM in response to its the right ryan

its the right ryan wrote:


Yes that is what phishing is however with an attachment it can turn into other problems in addition the steps I recomended will still fix this issue if its anything other than a virus.

No, you can't run a program from an attachment on an iPhone the way you can on a Windows device. There are currently no known viruses or trojans that affect an iOS device unless it's jailbroken. Applications on iOS devices don't have the same ability to affect other applications as they do on computers.

Aug 9, 2013 7:46 PM in response to PappyDoc

I'm new to Apple and these websites. I'm with Sprint and got the same text. I could hardly open the text and unfortunately didn't know any better than to open it. Mid day I called Sprint and had me reset and didn't work. I was traveling and called them back. They said there were issues with iphones and text messages not sending or receiving and had me call Apple...who told me my 90 days was over. I called Best Buy Geek Squad. Took it there. They were baffled after trying the reload twice. I was gald I purchased their warranty. They sent it back and eight days later I had a new phone. It is working fine. With restoring to the previous nights settings, all went well.


I hope others have been restored.

Sep 3, 2013 7:48 PM in response to HerrDirector

I tried your method and the Messages app hang as soon as I attempt to send a text from Contacts. I can open existing conversation via Contacts but the Message app would crash as soon as I hit the 'Message' button on the top left corner. I have been receiving this hack message via iMessage on a daily basis (since last week). I would not get this hack message if I turn off iMessage.

I hope there will be an alternative solution to this hack. Hopefully iOS 7 will cure this vunlerbility.

Oct 2, 2013 1:55 PM in response to Eyechub

There are no known viruses that affect an unjailbroken iPhone. Yes, a website could have gotten your phone number, most likely by tricking you into giving it to them or by hacking some account in which you had it listed. Or, someone is using your number from one of the text spoofing websites. If you know what website it is, try contacting the administrator.


Best of luck.

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