My iMessage has been hacked

A very similar thing happened to me. Somebody logged into my imessage from an iMac and a Macmini (which I dont have) to send $19.99 RayBan spam to approximately 100 US numbers. I think it is the same virus/malware that you encountered. I have an iphone with ios 9.3.5 and an iPad with 9.3.4.

I immediately changed password and security questions, plus I disabled imessage and didnt activate it again.

There was no trace of these iMac and Macmini on the active device list. Either they were immediately deleted, or they are just "ghost" devices. The problem seems solved for the moment, but I do not dare to enable imessage again.

The only unusual thing that I did the same day of the hack, was buying tickets for a liveshow, with safari from the iphone, using the same email and phone number and credit card of my itunes account (of course not the same password). Could this information be enough to hack into imessage?

Other than that, I receive several gif images everyday in telegram.

I am now thinking to reset the phone, without restoring the backup.

just got this exact same problem

having funny weird 'unable to connect to iTunes store' messages lately

this morning, my service provider called me and told me around 900 sms has been sent out by my phone

went to message app and got the same exact problem with these weird chinese text sent out and i received an email from apple saying that my id as been used to Your Apple ID (xxx) was used to sign in to iMessage on an iPod named “iPod touch”.

seems like my apple id has been compromised

I Have had the same issue yesterday and the first thing i did was to change the password. what got me really worried is how someone else could access my apple id? The password was a unique one and not used on any other platform. It was accessed from an ipod touch running ios 8.something.

I had the same issue today, but when I research the issue, it looks like Apple said they fixed this issue with the upgrade to 9.3.5. Why the **** am I getting hacked, how much information did they get access to, and has anybody experienced any other issues after the hack as a result of personal/billing information getting out? Extremely frustrating!

Hi BBzebrageek22,

Perhaps it is linked to another leaked account-db and where you by default use the same email/pwd as your appleID?

It would be interesting to know if this is the case.

Check the https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to confirm if your account has been compromised and if it is reasonable to think the credentials would be the same now as they were then.

I would appreciate if you could confirm to me if there is a connection here...

(and yes, I found my account being a part of a few leaks as well)

/N

Hi Jaydeep0406,

Perhaps it is linked to another leaked account-db and where you by default use the same email/pwd as your appleID?

It would be interesting to know if this is the case.

Check the https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to confirm if your account has been compromised and if it is reasonable to think the credentials would be the same now as they were then.

I would appreciate if you could confirm to me if there is a connection here...

(and yes, I found my account being a part of a few leaks as well)

/N

I have been hacked from Linkdln, but since I didn't use it in a long time, I completely forgot the password. As soon as I tried to log in they asked to reset the password (because the account was exposed), so I will never find out if the password was the same. Could be possible though

Same here!

why all of a sudden all of us are getting those?

I had the same thing happen to me on 9/14/16. I got the notification that an iPod Touch had accessed my iMessage account so I immediately changed my password and made sure that no other devices were showing up on my account. Soon I noticed that 4 text messages has been sent in Chinese to phone numbers in China in the span of about 2 minutes. This seemed to stop and I called Apple. They said that they had never heard of this before and did not know how to tell if anyone still had access to my phone or macbook. They recommended changing Apple ID password and email address. The Advisor told a manager and came back on to say that there were no additional suggests. It's very frustrating and I still do not know if my computer or phone are secure or not.

about 270 messages sent to 270 different numbers in 45 minutes. it's about 6 messages per minute

would suggest to everyone to implement 2FA immediately or turn off iMessage

i am being charged $300 from my service provider as a result of these iMessage (which resulted in global sms) sent out to china

The same thing happened to my wife this morning. Her iCloud account was signed into iMessage on a MacBook Air, which we don't have. The previous post to this doesn't make sense, since whoever hacked the account didn't send the messages directly from their device. That is the only way you could be charged the fee. iMessage messages can only be sent to other iOS accounts/devices.

Hi,

This thread is about iMessages being sent.

The Bubbles are Blue in the pics people have posted.

If you have an SMS issue that is something different.

8:21 pm Tuesday; September 20, 2016

I had the same problem. On the 18th I woke up and realized that 300 messages were sent from my iPhone (5 per minute in 1 hour). I changed my Apple ID address and password and although It hasn't happened again, I can't send iMessages anymore. They seem to be activated but they do not work. I tried everything, restored all kinds of settings, reinstalled IOS and activating iMessage with a different sim card. After contacting Apple they told me that since none of these actions worked, there must be a problem with the hardware of my device. But my device hand't caused any similar problems since the spam chinese messages. So I activated iMessage on an older Apple device (iPhone 4s) using my (previously infected) Apple ID and then a new Apple ID, that I created toady, and the problem remains. Any suggestions??

I am also having this EXACT issue except I was hacked early yesterday morning. I've done factory resets and still cannot send any iMessages. This is very stressful.