iPhone 6 most likely hacked. Please help.

Hi there. I believe you because your story sounds eerily similar to a problem my family has been dealing with for three years. To a problem my family has been dealing with for three years. to mine. I know this is a longshot but could you tell me something about this individual. Like for example are they male or female? Or their approximate age? Or the city or state this person lives? It feels like you were talking about the same person who has hurt my family. However in our experience the individual did brag about their efforts and posted what they were doing. So in that respect the storyline is a little bit different. I'm you were talking about the same person who has hurt my family. However in our experience the individual did brag about their efforts and posted what they were doing. So in that respect the storyline is a little bit different.

Mbear4321 wrote:

Hi there. I believe you because your story sounds eerily similar to a problem my family has been dealing with for three years.

If you have an ongoing problem with someone gaining illegal access to your accounts, you should be contacting law enforcement.

If you have a restraining order, that means both you and law enforcement know who the person is. It is highly unlikely they are in anyway related to what the original poster thought was happening to them (especially as it doesn't appear that they were hacked). Continue to work through law enforcement. Make sure all of your accounts have strong passcodes. Put a passcode on your phone.

I believe everything you said is correct. I will say that the android phones appear to be way more susceptible based on the things that happened to us with our android devices versus our iPhones. I feel the iPhone does provide more protection but it's definitely not full proof. It is insane that individuals can do this sort of thing to victims and it doesn't seem to be easily traceable. Does anybody know how to detect and prove that your phone has been hacked. I mean legitimately detect that there is a program running on it and identify the program. I would be most interested in knowing if there is a program that can detect when somebody has interfered with your phone call.

If your phone is not jailbroken it hasn't been hacked. Period. If it has been jailbroken all bets are off. If it were possible to hack an unjailbroken iPhone the FBI would not have had to pay a white hat hacker $1 million to hack one phone.

iPhones can get hacked, app by app. I've been hacked for years and Apple isn't telling the truth. The FBI $1M news report was bs. They don't want us to know what they can do. And if they can do it, any hacker who is a career hacker can keep up. I have tons of examples but the main one for me is my "Send diagnostics and send to Apple developers" magically turns iitself of periodically. They can and are getting hacked.

Kimhoovertx wrote:

iPhones can get hacked, app by app. I've been hacked for years and Apple isn't telling the truth. The FBI $1M news report was bs. They don't want us to know what they can do. And if they can do it, any hacker who is a career hacker can keep up. I have tons of examples but the main one for me is my "Send diagnostics and send to Apple developers" magically turns iitself of periodically. They can and are getting hacked.

Please supply actual proof of this. In what way was the information about the FBI needing to pay one million dollars to crack a phone not true? How do you know this? A setting changing on your phone is not, by itself, proof of anything. What troubleshooting steps have you taken?

thesum is spot on...it's very easy to eavesdrop on iphone phone conversations, texts messages, etc. There's a hundred cheap or free apps out there to do just what the OP is asking about. Mspy, Masterlocate to name just a couple off the top of my head...there's even an app specifically for the supposed rock solid 'whatsapp'...you folks are so naive if you think this isn't happening, and it's not an uncommon event...not even close. For most of these apps now, all one needs to know is the target's phone number. And there's a lot of nerds out there that get off on doing this. They post a dossier on someone (a target whom they slander) on the deep web, and then all of these other nerds get in on the action thinking they're doing justice to an evil person and keep adding to this dossier collecting everything from your mother's maiden name to your social security number, any security questions you've had to say over the phone, etc.

Dude a phone doesn't need to be jail broken to eavesdrop on your conversation and text messages, or track you're location...I guess you've never used Uber before either...I use them all the time and their app allows you to see where your driver is on a map in real time...there's tons of free apps that do that and much more!

And the FBI wasn't trying to eavesdrop on the phone that you're referring to...you've missed the whole point if you think the OP's question had anything in common with what the FBI was doing in that case...they don't need to pay a dime to eavesdrop!

Dude, for every one of those functions that you mention you must explicitly give the app permission to do that. And none of them eavesdrop; they know your location, because you gave them permission to. Period. They can't listen to you, they can't see your iMessages, texts, whatsapp, or anything else. When you have proof please post it. Until then just stop posting nonsense.

Kimhoovertx wrote:

I have tons of examples but the main one for me is my "Send diagnostics and send to Apple developers" magically turns iitself of periodically.

So they don't want your information but you keep turning it on to give them information?

Perhaps you are not as important as you think you are and they are tired of looking at your data...

versenumber2 wrote:

it's very easy to eavesdrop on iphone phone conversations, texts messages, etc.

While the NSA or other government agencies can gain quite a bit of access to information by going through the service providers, it is not trivial to do so as a consumer. Cellular traffic is encrypted. There are no "cheap or free apps" that will allow you to break that encryption.

What is evident from your posts is that you have no real understanding of encryption of telecommunications technology. You've been watching too much television.

Also, as a nerd, I am offended by your use of it as a synonym for criminal. That also indicates your lack of understanding of the history of science and technology.

Whoa Larry, hold on there bud! I don't believe Uber, nor any other app that I've downloaded is doing anything nefarious...I mentioned real time location technology that Uber uses for a reason: it's not science fiction, it's real technology and they're not the only ones using it. I promise, I can point you to a lot of software apps that are using that with bad intentions...I wouldn't lie to you bro, it's true.

The way Uber uses it, it's great - actually very helpful and pretty slick. And just an FYI, I don't give Uber access to my location as you mentioned above...I see them but they don't see me - pretty cool huh? But to be super clear, nothing about them eavesdropping. Just like the FBI thing, you're confusing yourself.

Next part:

You said: "for every one of those functions that you mention you must explicitly give the app permission to do that"

Spot on bro, but unfortunately...this conversation has nothing to do with allocating permissions to apps you've downloaded. Kind of like the FBI thing...completely off topic. Go back to the OP and review - nothing regarding app permissions.

You see here's the deal bro...When you're phone is breached, the option of allocating permissions doesn't exist. *** I know, but true. So for example, if it's spyware that's doing the eavesdropping, you won't see that in your list of apps. That's pretty typical of spyware...it's hidden, it doesn't want to be found.

Example:

Let's say Larry is being targeted with spyware...we'll call it Larryware. Larryware shows up on Larry's phone in his list of applications so Larry deletes it. Bam...Larry has single handedly brought the whole spyware industry to it's knees! Man o man, if life could be that simple brother...

However, your phone cannot be breached, except by someone who has physical possession of it. There is no way to install spyware on a phone remotely. As Edward Snowden showed in his published documents, NSA had be trying for years and had found no way to remotely compromise an iPhone.

If the phone has been hacked by someone with physical possession who has installed spyware, doing a DFU restore will remove any spyware that may have been added.

The forum is the entirety of the Apple Support Communities. If you're not happy with it, you just stop participating.

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