iPhone 'botically sending out "Notes" pages via Gmail to Undisclosed Recipients!

[brimcmike]

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

 

[Gav2k]

Are you jail broken?

If something is on a device it does not need a password to send anything as generally your email send passwords would be stored!!

 

[brimcmike]

Not Jail Broken

Some program is copying the contents of Notes and emailing out of my iPhone to "undisclosed recipients." This several steps and between programs.

 

[elton.john]

I have just noticed this behaviour as well. iPad 3, not jailbroken either. Found this started as early as May. Is this normal? I have since disconnected "Notes" from "Gmail" in the mail settings area, wondering if that's what it was. Nervous at the thought of being something malicious?

 

[hqi1321]

I just noticed the same thing, on a un-jailbroken iPad 2. Notes written on my iPad had been sent via gmail to "undisclosed recipients." Very scary as I had some very sensitive information on there.
I had gotten the iPad used but I made sure to erase all content and settings before I started using it myself.
Would really like a confirmation on whether or not I had been hacked or if this is some new Apple/Gmail sync thing.

 

[hqi1321]

I found this:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4062064?start=0&tstart=0

Apparently this was indeed a setting allowing you to view Notes written on your Ipad/iPhone in Gmail.

A link from the above discussion, from an unofficial blog about this:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/06/save-iphone-notes-to-gmail-account.html

I made a google groups thing and am awaiting a confirmation through there
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail/report-an-issue/account-access-and-safety/iphone-ipad-or-ipod/XoXGyi6Ltkw

Personally, I think if we use Gmail through our iOS devices, there should be something, like a special self-generated label in Gmail for notes from the Notes app, rather than this which, to be honest, looks very shady.