Q: My iphone has been hacked?
Hi everyone, I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 8.1.2 and a few weeks ago all of my pictures disappeared. When I connected my phone to iTunes it says that the photos are still there but it just doesnt appear on photos app on my iphone. So I did a little digging and found a way to fix it, i had to delete photos.sqlite inside the DCIM folder of my iphone through my mac and the photo library rebuilt itself and all of my photos came back. But then I noticed that the pictures are not chronologically displayed, but I can live with that.
Then some nasty things started happening, my phone has since started freezing for around 10 seconds when accessing photo library through another app (such as selecting a picture from photo library on instagram) and it has since become laggy. So I decided to download an handy app called SystemTools from the appstore that lets me see what processes are running and stuff and I discovered a suspicious process called EscrowSecurityAI. It has a level 17 priority and I don't know whether it is a legit apple process or from a third party app. I'm really paranoid right now in case someone is hacking my phone?
I also did a little research on google and it might be an escrow key attack? I don't know what that means but I don't like how it sounds.
Does any of you guys know what I should do with my phone? should I erase everything on my iphone or should I get a new iphone? Thanks guys, really appreciate your response
iPhone 5s, iOS 8.1.2
Posted on Nov 16, 2015 12:24 AM