Hacked device due to upgrade

[Yanavela6]

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2019-02-01.html
My brand new replacement note9 was hacked. My brand new previous device also suffered the same fate. The latest update allowed a remote hacker to take over my device and all of accounts and apps used on my android/ Samsung/ at&t device. I have proof in my emails of my google/Samsung accounts being breached via a remote hacker changing my passwords. I have all my accounts set up with text messages generated codes. I have proof in my text messages that remote hacker also received these codes. Same with phone call verification. I'm positively sure that my childrens and my identity has been stolen and or impacted. I took pictures of our identification and social security numbers with my upgraded awesome picture taking note9 and sent to my tax preparer via text messages, for tax preparation purposes. All while I have a lurker watching and controlling my device. Futher more, they have been able to hack my home wifi network and have managed to control my home wifi network and my brand new Dell computer. Installed all sorts of spyware and remote control software on all my devices including PC. I am disgusted with the level of security breach behind this last android update!! I want a rectification and resolution to your biggest software mistake!!

 

[sweetypie31]

You should probably send all this to Google and Samsung. No one here can help you with this.

 

[hooligan03]

why would you even send a pic of your tax info/ssn over a text message? This is just asking for trouble... sorry to hear this happened though.

 

[Gary02468]

You don't say which firmware your "latest upgrade" is, or why you think it had anything to do with how your two phones and home PC and Google/Samsung accounts got hacked.

 

[Mooncatt]

If this is all true, then contact the authorities, your carrier, Samsung, Google, your home ISP, and the manufacturer of your Wi-Fi router to report it. This site is not affiliated with any of them. When it's all settled, I suggest abandoning smartphones and computers unless you take steps to prevent this again, as you would have to have glaring security issues with your usage of these devices. I'm not talking about bugs and holes in the OS, but how you are locking down your privacy.

On the other hand, I'm thinking this is BS. It's next to impossible to hack everything so completely and would require physical access to everything to go cross platform like this. The other reason is the apparent group text 2-step authentication. That is possible to do, but not remotely. To do so, they first need to get your login and password. When they remotely sign into your account, it'll require the verification text before they can log in to add the second number. If you never saw that text show up without you trying to log in, then it means no one else was trying to log in. If you did notice that text, you should've been addressing it right then and there, not waiting until it became a total mess. That's not even getting into the amount of effort required for a remote hacker to associate all of your devices as being yours without a physical presence.

We see a lot of fantastical hacking posts like that here. Not once have I seen the user come back and update us on the final outcome. You'd think at least one person would come back to say they figured out the problem and corrected it, or just that they gave up and created fresh accounts. Instead, they always vanish, never to respond to our attempts at helping them. Yes, it's possible to hack a phone or any computer device, but is actually rather hard with Android and near impossible to then go to all of your other devices. That's why I'm always skeptical with posts like this. The more outrageous the story, the more skeptical I become.

 

[Wbutchart]

This thread is sponsored by Apple.

 

[BBSeattle]

Joined yesterday, 1 creepy post, no follow up response(s)... That's not suspicious.

 

[rsmin]

I wouldn't click on his link either.

 

[Mooncatt]

I wouldn't click on his link either.

The link is probably the only legitimate thing about the post, going to the Android security update blog. Lol

 

[j_hansen]

You must have bought a Chinese copy

 

[rsmin]

True!

The link is probably the only legitimate thing about the post, going to the Android security update blog. Lol

 

[CKwik240]

We see a lot of fantastical hacking posts like that here. Not once have I seen the user come back and update us on the final outcome. You'd think at least one person would come back to say they figured out the problem and corrected it, or just that they gave up and created fresh accounts.

Or their AC account got hijacked too. Haha.

 

[Rukbat]

LOL @CKwik240.

Oops - did that just get hacked?

 

[pizza_pablo]

Here is "her" only other post :
https://forums.androidcentral.com/a...urity-possible-hack-my-phone.html#post6489898


Colour me skeptical.

 

[pizza_pablo]

This thread is sponsored by Apple.

Or by an anti virus app.
I am surprised one wasn't mentioned as the savior. Perhaps that is still coming.