My devices have been hacked. What do I do?

Another victim here, FWIW. In Toowoomba, Queensland. Wife's un-passcode protected iPad and iPhone started blaring c.4.45AM, each is locked and displaying the same 'Hacked by Oleg Pliss' message. Her Macbook Air has also displayed the same message as Amberoonie above.

here in NZ hacked at 5.30am. How can they play a sound when its on silent!! Unreal

not to mention there's a 3 day lag before the two-step auth. process can be enabled. I've placed a request for an Apple rep to call me this morning re wife's devices. Don't really know what else to do.

I woke up this morning and saw the message too. It had stopped my alarm from going off. That being said I have a passcode and was able to get into my phone.

Just incase, I've gone onto my lap top and changed my Apple ID password and restored my phone to factory settings. I've also downloaded a back-up from a few days back.

I dont know if it'll help but I changed my passcode in aeroplane mode. All seems to be well. I can use my phone ok.

It sounds like the hack is only a problem if you don't have a passcode. But that may be a premature assumption.

Ha! Just discovered they've also hacked my ipod! Unfortunately I don't have a passcode for that!

One thought: it seems that everyone replying so far is in Australia or New Zealand. One possible reason for this would be if you all are using some e-mail service provider local to that part of the world - such as the e-mail addresses provided by a local internet service provider - and have those e-mail addresses associated with your Apple IDs. If that's the case, that e-mail provider might have been hacked, allowing the hackers to reset the passwords on those Apple IDs if they weren't already protected by two-factor authentication.

You should all consider changing the passwords on any e-mail accounts provided by a company in those countries.

deskokat wrote:

I updated my OSX yesterday as well!!!!

Updating Mac OS X would not be a factor here. The fact that you updated yesterday is purely coincidental.

Hotmail for me.

thomas, i did think about this - however my wife's apple ID's are apple to the, erm, core: @mac and @me.

Here is your fix again.

Apple Devices Hacked Overnight

Three devices all hacked, one with a pass code. Though interestingly the fourth linked device wasn't impacted (go figure). I'm in WA and it hit around 3am. Waiting for the apple store help line to open.

I'm assuming different carriers were impacted and not just one, ie iinet, or vodaphone etc????

Anyone tried resetting an iPhone to get in?

currently trying to give this as a go as we type - ta.

jules10001 wrote:

here in NZ hacked at 5.30am. How can they play a sound when its on silent!! Unreal

Through Find My Phone in your iCloud account.

Yes I have woken up to all our devices hacked by the same person! My children's ipads, my ipad and iphone!!!! Argghhh.