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I currently rent a room and believe the guy downstairs is spying on me. I believe he cloned my phone or installed spyware. He had access to my phone because I let him charge it. I didn’t have a clue, so here I am. I have factory reset my phone and it is still happening. Many details in crash reports and personal details of information he seems to know have lead to my suspicions. My new battery dies quickly, phone gets hot, data is 10x my family member’s usage, etc. This is what I found on his devices today. Is this normal? Also a new device read oneplus7t.home was on the list. I have an IPhone and I think it’s jailbroken. I have felt watched through my camera and have become afraid to be honest. I feel like I am going crazy. I will contact the police if necessary but don’t want to overreact. Thanks for you help!
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With that being said though, one of the first questions that I have would be 'does your neighbor know technology, works in a technology field, etc. If you answer no to any of those, chances are if he were to spy on you his level of knowledge would be quite superficial. Meaning that with you resetting your phone to factory defaults would eliminate that possibility. Does this person know your security PIN or Passcode to the phone? Issuing a factory reset also tells me that the phone isn't jailbroken, or at least a huge percentage chance that it's not.
Is there a possibility of obtaining a new phone? Take your iPhone to a Mac brick-and-mortar store to ask them to run a diagnostic on it? iOS has had issues with their batteries in several devices, if it becomes warm, you should have it checked.
The screenshots above don't raise any proverbial 'red flags' to say that it could be used to spy on you. Search the app store to find applications that can lock your phone's camera and microphone, they exist in an Android world so I assume it would assume there as well.
Please though, stay calm and above all stay safe.
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
Thank you for responding 😊 Yes this person is in the technology field and very smart. We share “common areas” in the rental house that neither of us own. Cameras are everywhere outside and in the common areas. I was not aware of this when I signed the lease. I am not a paranoid person and truly think before reacting. My gut is telling me that something is not right. I hope I’m wrong but I have to do something. Thank you for your input.
I'd go through your accounts and things and change the password to something robust and only you would know. Using a common word for a password can be easily guessed or hacked, so start with that and let's see what happens from there.
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
@kltaylor I think I am going to start over completely with a new email, phone number, etc. I have had the same number for a long time and I get lots of calls looking for different people. It’s probably time to “clean house” in many areas of my life! Ugh I wish people would just behave! Lol Thanks again
Hi bridget,
I'm really sorry that you have this potential security breach.
One thing I might suggest is to take a moment to leave everything as it is and do a little more digging before switching everything. The reason I say this is so that you can have either 1) the confirmation that you weren't being hacked with the piece piece mind that comes with it, or 2) the confirmation that this f#ker was in your stuff. If that happened, you want to know what he has, and probably call the police. If he did it once, he'll try again. So, it might be more valuable to confirm for that reason.
Even fb, better to catch him with a logged in device before you kick him off by changing the password.
Let's hope that didn't happen, though.
Still, (And this would apply even with new passwords/devices) if you don't trust everyone with access to the same router you're using, it's best to connect directly to a VPN and turn off all file sharing.
As to your question regarding those services: those are mostly windows subsystem connections. Netbios and msrpc are common enough, but could be used to remotely access a machine that is connected on the same network.
Netbios is usually just a printer or it might be a camera, but it's a vulnerable port for that host. Hackers could probably gain access to windows machines on that host if the machine leaves port 139 open.
I definitely want to get a VPN. I’m not tech savvy at all but we have had weird shit happen to my bf and I lately. Our roommates are trying to catch us doing something who knows what but we have heard them in the back yard so we got cameras
Thank you so much!
@Bridget you said "Many details in crash reports and personal details of information he seems to know have lead to my suspicions". Can you give some more details on this? What does he know, what has he said thst makes you say this?