An officer was approached outside the police department by complaint redacted who advised he suspected his cell phone may have been hacked, he advise the following:
While at home today attempting to add wireless device to have cellular phone, he realize the Bluetooth on his iPhone was identifying the phone as belonging to someone else. He then showed the office the displayed message.
Under the Bluetooth settings, the iPhone was indicating it was “now discoverable as Kaitlyn and Dylan’s iPhone.”
Redacted explain those were the names of the children of a former friend and he had no idea how his phone would have been labeled by Bluetooth as belonging to them. With redacted permission the officer checked the security settings on his iPhone and discovered he had no security set up. The officer explained to him this would allow anyone to use his phone or piggyback onto his Wi-Fi/Bluetooth should he lose it. The officer went over in great detail all the security function redacted should have active on his iPhone to prevent anyone from using it without his authority. [unlock, passcode, fingerprint id, two factor authentication]
With redacted permission, the officer reset the network settings on the iPhone and the suspicious message was now gone correctly reading the iPhone was “now discoverable as iPhone.”
When asked, redacted stated he has owned the phone for approximately 4 to 6 months and has noticed no suspicious activity of any kind on any of his emails or bank account. The officer advised him it was possible the iPhone, because he had no security measures active, it automatically attempted to join a Bluetooth network and rename itself when it was successful. After rebooting the iPhone The Officer verified it remained discoverable has “iPhone” in Bluetooth.
The officer advised redacted he had no way to scan the phone to see if there was any type of surveillance software had been installed and suggested he take it to an Apple store if he still suspected it had been hacked.
Summary: redacted reported a suspicious incident.
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