How can this happen?
@PointlessQuestions (15397)
United States
February 16, 2013 4:40pm CST
Something strange happened last night. Someone was texting on my phone and its NOT me. Yep! There was a back and forth conversation in text going on my iPhone and I'm looking at it as I hear the sound that I have received a text. It's talking about how you are doing and all that. The answer says I'm doing fine. Then it says something about going somewhere and the answer says to send the details or something like that.
Then today someone hacked into my gmail account. I have all my emails on my phone too so I figured whoever sent the texts must have hacked my email account too. Crooks are getting smarter and smarter.
I know my mail was hacked into because one of my friends got a spam link from me and I didn't send it.
Who can shed some light on this subject?
Thanks to all in advance.
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13 responses
@Raine38 (12390)
• United States
16 Feb 13
That is kinda creepy and alarming. I would also think that your account might be hacked. I am not really an expert on emails and cellphones and preventing hackers access to your gadgets, but I would strongly suggest that you immediately change your email passwords. Try to have the wifi access of your wireless gadgets changed as well, or maybe the password. Crooks are really getting smarter despite the advances on antivruses and anti-phishing tools. They can always find way to break the code and mess up everything.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
16 Feb 13
I'm thinking they hacked my iPhone first and then got into my email. Just a guess.
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@iluvusabado (2560)
• Philippines
16 Feb 13
i thought you will say there's a ghost manipulating you phone. i guess someone must have really hacked you email. there really are a lot of people who have a lot of free time that they want to disrupt other people's lives.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
16 Feb 13
No. No ghosts. Whoever did this is alive and very dishonest.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Feb 13
I don't know but you need to check with your cellphone company if charges were made like long distance and so on.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
17 Feb 13
My bill is the same as always. It's not like a house phone with long distance. I pay for 450 anytime minutes and unlimited night and weekend minutes. Now, if I were to call you it would be sky high because its an international call. I also pay $10 for 1000 texts a month. I never use up all my texting.
I did get charged once for some scam on a text and I got that reversed. They are good about that.
@xiaohongxiaohong (340)
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17 Feb 13
What happened in your phone was not a single thing, our personal information are easily leaked by somebody with bad purpose. There are many ways to leak personal information: resumes, airway bills... Even we try to protect our persional information, but sometimes it is very difficult.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Feb 13
I don't know but you need to check with your cellphone company in case long distance charges were made.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
18 Feb 13
Any time I see a discrepancy on my bill I question it. Once someone charged me $19.99 on my phone bill through a game text or something. It wasn't me doing it. My carrier got that reversed for me so I didn't have to pay it.
@sharlahodges (813)
• United States
17 Feb 13
This is really scaring for sure. I know I have a IPhone and so does my daughter. We have our phone all on one account so we was reading each other messages from other people she would talk to finally figure out to set that we was not reading each other's messages.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
13 Mar 13
My whole family has iPhones. I'm not on their account though. They share an account.
@machatago (385)
• Philippines
25 Feb 13
Somebody must have gotten your phone and hacked your account after that. That is kinda creepy and strange too. I think you should change all your passwords after that incident so that the hacker won't be able to get in all your accounts and cause a lot of problems especially if the hacker is the one sending the message.
@tiffnkeat (1673)
• Singapore
17 Feb 13
You should report the matter to the police. This is also a case of identity theft. Work with your telco too to locate the place where the sms response is coming from and alert the telco/authorities of the offending party.
Why don't hackers find better ways to use their intelligence than to do low-down scum stuff?
This is scary, yet sad.
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
13 Mar 13
No it's all good now. No one stole my identity. People get hacked all the time. We just have to change passwords. It's happened to me and a lot of folks on yahoo and Facebook too.
@Nursefrai06 (2498)
• Penrith, Australia
17 Feb 13
Oh wow, i never knew it was possible as my moms boyfriend suspects that his ex wife hacked his phone. Now i know that it is possible, as i have had second thoughts towards incidents he says, thanks for letting me know its possible,
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@Laurenlynn (715)
• Canada
13 Mar 13
That is so scary this does not sound to promising maybe you will have to change things up I will be interested in reading resposes to this discussion. Good luck Pointless.
@piscesix08 (29)
• Philippines
13 Mar 13
that is why it is advisable to change password often and don't use the same password for email, facebook, twitter, etc because it is easier for hackers.
