About iMac being hacked

if you think your Apple ID has been compromised see this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204145

You may wish to change your Apple ID log/pass with a complex password you don’t use for anywhere else.

If you share the same or similar log/pass combo with another service (e.g. Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and that service is compromised then anyone with that information simply needs to try the same combo elsewhere

To change your Apple ID password see this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/KM205079

To Change the Email associated with your Apple ID see this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202667

To change the payment information in your Apple ID see this link:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201266

Yes. I was. I could even see the hacker’s browsing activity in my history. I had my computer wiped by the Apple store. Messages were sent from my computer. A custom Bluetooth DUN was remotely installed for continuous internet access after I marked all of my network access utilities inactive. They deleted files and added them at will. My computer was remotely hacked as well as every other smart device that ever used my home network.

Nope. Didn't happen.

You can't provide any proof, or even strong evidence that it did.

Repeatedly spouting the same ridiculous accusations in every thread you can find that might be remotely related to your paranoid fantasies serves no purpose at all.

If you truly believe you have the evidence to back up your allegations, then contact the FBI.

for many people there is no real difference between, malware, popups, spam mails(phishing) software bugs, periodic hardware malfunctions and being hacked or having a virus. they get a bad experience and the human mind like to look for patterns and add associations and give labels.

Rudegar wrote:

for many people there is no real difference between, malware, popups, spam mails(phishing) software bugs, periodic hardware malfunctions and being hacked or having a virus. they get a bad experience and the human mind like to look for patterns and add associations and give labels.

Yes, and that's a problem. It's important to educate people on what's actually happening, likely to happen or even possible. If someone persists in believing that their hardware has been compromised when it's far more likely that their account was hacked, they are going to be trying to solve the wrong problem. They will become increasingly frustrated and they will still have a vulnerability.

And, of course, that human tendency to see patterns in random noise leads susceptible people to believe a problem exists where it doesn't.

You are not 'hacked'. There are a number of processes that run as root. That's normal. It's entirely possible your email account was compromised, but your Mac was not "hacked".

His story sounds a lot like mine and I was remotely hacked severely.

No. You were not. Having your account(s) compromised is NOT the equivalent of having your Mac "hacked" remotely".