The iPhone worm that slapped a picture of Rick Astley on to your jailbroken handset might have been little more than a mildly alarming joke, but there’s a new hack doing the rounds that’s much more deadly. According to security expert Intego, this one steals all your personal data.
The firm has identified the worm as iPhone/Privacy.A, and it works in just the same way as the Ikee 80s popstar prank, by allowing a hacker to connect to a jailbroken iPhone which hasn’t had its root password changed. Once in, the hacker can silently swipe everything from emails to texts, music, and all data from iPhone apps installed.
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While normal iPhones aren’t at risk, estimates put the number of busted out iPhones at 6-8%, and with 40 million iPhone OS devices shipped already, that puts potentially hundreds of thousands of people at risk still. If you’re one of them, you can reduce the chances by changing your iPhone root password with these instructions – there’s a Cydia app for that.
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