My iMessage has been hacked

Same here, got an email notifying me I have a new device logged in with my APPLE ID last night

And this morning I saw 35 messages were sent out to +86 No. from my phone through iMessage

It maybe a security breach since there are quite a number of victims here 😟

I Was also a victim of hackers yesterday.

i Changed my password right away (after many bugs and tries on my iPhone) and now need to wait two more days to do the 2-way step.

my concern though is that I'm not receiving iMessages anymore. My husband tried texting me and it won't go through. He receives mine fine though. When I try to send iMessages it tries to send as text messages instead. I checked in my settings and nothing seems wrong... anybody knows what I should do?

Same thing happened to my wife yesterday. Two different computers logged into her account and sent about 40 imessages to other Chinese numbers. She changed her password and now she needs to wait 2 days for the 2-way setup. She is now able to receive imessages now however.

FYI no Apple tech support people are script led. They are specifically trained not to read from scripts except for a few rare instances when they have to deliver a policy statement. T2 have typically been around longer, have more power to give exceptions and have a few more tools available to them. That's it. T1 can handle most issues.

It happened the exact same for me. I got an unknown login to my apple id and then the hacker sent themselves this message. I then received 30+ of the Chinese character spam. I changed my password in iCloud to a phrase with spaces and I also put a lock on my iPhone. I also have put my iPhone in airport mode. Has anyone had bad consequences from this happen? I don't want to factory reset as I haven't backed it up in some time.

It looks like we got hacked by the same person as I was inadvertently sending out the exact same message from imessage. Luckily, they were only able to send out one text as I changed my password immediately after receiving the email. I also deactivated all devices that were authorized on my apple id. I hope that's the end of it.

This morning I had the same issues.

At 2:50 am I got an email saying someone on a iMac signed in with my apple id.

Between 4:50am and 4:56am about 40 text messages were sent. Each from a different phone number.

I woke up around 8am and found the email, changed my apple id password immediately, and have to wait a further two days for apple to let me turn on the 2-step verification stuff.

So it looks like changing your password often is not good enough, 2-step verification should be mandatory, not optional.

Oops I meant to say they sent 40+ texts to different phone numbers.

And all was in Chinese, translator says its casino etc. advertisements.

I had the same thing happen to me. very odd

I just had a similar experience. I received two emails from Apple this morning. One at 5:22AM saying that at 3:22AM PDT someone signed into my iMessage via a MacBook Air 11 named “8gepc的Mac (3)”. And the other email came at 5:35AM stating that at 3:34 AM PDT someone signed into my iCloud via a web browser (browser: IE, operating system: Windows). Like the others who included screenshots, I saw in my iMessages over 15 outgoing messages in Chinese. I've deleted them all. I've also changed my Apple ID password and am waiting until I can enable to the two-step verification. It would be helpful to understand why this happened and what else users can do to prevent such hacks. I do appreciate the Apple alert emails though, otherwise I don't know how long it would have been before I saw this hack.

I have been hacked too! When I receive an email telling me I had sign in my ID from other device. I changed the password and then I realized that I sent more than 15 iMessages to foreign numbers with chinese characters.

Yes I had the same thing today. Apple appear to have noticed and locked my account within an hour. I've changed the password to be something completely different now.

What's weird is that Apple made me change my password not too long ago so this was already quite a recent password. Can't imagine how someone got hold of it.

I got this too 2 days ago! Then i told my family members about it. Now my husband is getting the same hacked issue!!!! im afraid that they got the apple IDs from my contact list! it freaks us out and im requesting all of my family members to change their password!

Oct 7th 2016 UK this happened here today on our mac & iphone. Woke to find our iphone 6 had supposidly dialed a number via messenger sending 1,1,1 to a phillipine +63 number then about 20 other messages to dialing code china +86 at different numbers. There was a notification saying our phone was connected to a new imac 4. ?? ive read today that some say its not hacking but spam.... sorry but being able to not control your apple ID and account, to me is Hacking,... We have changed details emails & pw, and had the mac working again. only to restart and we have lost it completly. Thanks to these random messages.... reading all these posts some since June we seriously need advice because changing the id for apple and pw and also cloud info isnt working

Hi,

UK here; we had this. Very similar.

Firstly: NO message or email or popup about any device added to account and we checked no devices appear listed either. so that is different.

But; 3 or 4 messages with just "1" to Philippines followed by 40 spam chinese messages

Strange thing; the iphone wasn't even signed in to iMessage with the Apple ID... The iMessage was just set up as a phone number it seems...

So we can't see any unusual activity on the Apple ID account in question; but how were they able to send messages from this iPhone then if it wasn't set up for iMessage on an Apple ID!? (More to the point; since when could you use iMessage without an Apple ID anyway since this is how my partner had her phone set up)

Something strange is going on here. This isn't a compromised Apple ID account. This looks like an honest hack on iMessage!? The iPhone doesn't appear to be compromised. It's running iOS 10.0.1 . No new apps. Nothing broken. The Apple ID is secure... What on earth....