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Any body else hear about jailbroke phones being " Hacked "
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Apparently if your phone is jail broken you are at a high risk right now of someone accessing your phone and locking you out and forcing you to pay a ransom. It's mostly in China and around Europe as of now but probably won't be soon, if it hasn't yet, hit America. I have a jailbroke iPhone 6 but I'm not worried about it because the cause of it is people installing illegal apps. Basically apps that allow you to cheat in games ( excluding XMODZGAMES ) and apps that allow you to get free stuff that you originally have to pay for. So if you don't have any apps like that you are good for the most part. If you wanna take security measures change your Apple ID password and phone password, so I've been told. I personally only jailbroke my phone for themes to customize my springboard. Guys downloading 3rd party repos and stuff like that is just stupid so don't do it. Your just screwing yourself over.
As of now 250,000 iOS users have been hacked
As of now 250,000 iOS users have been hacked
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Basically there are some shady tweaks that have back-doors and are stealing Jailbreak user's iCloud account and password to a remote server, which so far there are roughly 250 thousand accounts that have been leaked. It seams that most of these tweaks were from the the apt.so/apt.feng.com repository. I personally have never heard of this repository so if you haven't installed this repository or the tweaks that come from it then you're fine.
You're really not at as big of a risk as you think you are.
The best way to avoid being threatened by this stuff is two factor authentication and NO pirated repo/tweaks.
You're really not at as big of a risk as you think you are.
The best way to avoid being threatened by this stuff is two factor authentication and NO pirated repo/tweaks.
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