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Filed under: Hardware, Hacks, iPhone

Running a jailbroken iPhone has the risks, as a Dutch hacker has demonstrated. Specifically, he used a bit of pier scanning to find jailbroken phones with SSH using in his local Netherlands. From there, he sent gullible users a summary which reads, “Your iPhone’s been hacked since it’s unequivocally insecure! Please revisit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your iPhone right now! Right now, I can entrance all your files.”

The URL directs the users to Paypal and requests €5 in sell for instructions which insist how to remove the hack. But how did he get in? By relying on users’ forgetfulness. All iPhones have a default base password. Those who dont think about to shift it have been exposed to this really kind of attack.

Asking for income is kind of a bummer but most reduction repulsive which alternative things he could have done. The dignified of the story is compensate courtesy and be consummate when jailbreaking your iPhone.

[Via Ars Technica]

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