My gmail just got account hacked to send out spam to my contacts. My password is not something that I think could be sequentially cracked. It and its variants come out as "strong" on sites that show password strength as one registers.
On a lark I searched for my password in gmail. Up popped a plethora of emails sent out every few days containing a copy of the info I have kept on "Notes," on my iPhone, where I'm ashamed to say, I kept usernames and passwords of my too-many accounts at work, etc.
The recurrent email info for these is:
from: Me myaccount@gmail.com
to: undisclosed recipients
date: Day, Date at Time
subject: "Title of Notes Page in Question"
mailed-by: gmail.com
In fact, after doing some other keyword searches, it turns out that it sends out a copy of each Notes page to Me and to these undisclosed recipients every time I make a change to a Notes page.
This seems to be pretty sophisticated malware on an iPhone of all things. Any other reports of such badness out there? For starters I guess I delete Notes, but could this malware be elsewhere? And how would I go about scanning for it and quarantining or deleting it?
Is there and app for that?
Thanks
On a lark I searched for my password in gmail. Up popped a plethora of emails sent out every few days containing a copy of the info I have kept on "Notes," on my iPhone, where I'm ashamed to say, I kept usernames and passwords of my too-many accounts at work, etc.
The recurrent email info for these is:
from: Me myaccount@gmail.com
to: undisclosed recipients
date: Day, Date at Time
subject: "Title of Notes Page in Question"
mailed-by: gmail.com
In fact, after doing some other keyword searches, it turns out that it sends out a copy of each Notes page to Me and to these undisclosed recipients every time I make a change to a Notes page.
This seems to be pretty sophisticated malware on an iPhone of all things. Any other reports of such badness out there? For starters I guess I delete Notes, but could this malware be elsewhere? And how would I go about scanning for it and quarantining or deleting it?
Is there and app for that?
Thanks
