Question Unsettling Contact Mysteriously Appeared

[Trevor2446]

I was going through my contact list and deleting some people I don't talk to anymore and at the very bottom I saw a contact - You've Been Hacked....? It had no phone number and no email. Wondering how this possibly showed up and if it's true?? I don't click links, I connect to very few WiFi networks and I find the whole thing strange and worrying. Downloaded Bit Defender and it came back with nothing. How could this have happened?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Do you ever let anyone else handle your phone or any other devices where you log into your Google account (like a computer)? Or do you ever log into your Google account on a public device (like a computer a work or at the public library), and perhaps forget to log off? It sounds like a prank from some "friend" or stranger.

In the meantime, to be safe, change your Google account password, and make sure you have 2-factor authentication turned on.

 

[fuzzylumpkin]

Welcome to Android Central! Do you ever let anyone else handle your phone or any other devices where you log into your Google account (like a computer)? Or do you ever log into your Google account on a public device (like a computer a work or at the public library), and perhaps forget to log off? It sounds like a prank from some "friend" or stranger.

In the meantime, to be safe, change your Google account password, and make sure you have 2-factor authentication turned on.

I agree with this. It's far more likely to be a prank than someone hacking you... People who hack you do not tell you that they have hacked you lol

 

[Trevor2446]

Welcome to Android Central! Do you ever let anyone else handle your phone or any other devices where you log into your Google account (like a computer)? Or do you ever log into your Google account on a public device (like a computer a work or at the public library), and perhaps forget to log off? It sounds like a prank from some "friend" or stranger.

In the meantime, to be safe, change your Google account password, and make sure you have 2-factor authentication turned on.

Yeah, I've spoken to a friend of mine who's pretty into cyber security and he thinks it's just a case of someone joking with me as well. But no, I don't log into my Google accounts on any public device and I have since enabled MFA. Although Google does a great job of alerting users to new logins