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Is my phone hacked?

  • 24-01-2016 12:10AM
    #1
    DKmac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭


    Location services on my phone are randomly telling me I'm in Newmarket-on-fergus. Clicked Google maps location and it takes me to some sh!tty apartment block near shannon airport. I live on the opposite side of the country and am nowhere near this place.Is my phone potentially hacked and what should I do?


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  • #2
    liamo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭liamo


    Move there to resolve the inconsistency?

    (with apologies for the unhelpful comment but I couldn't help myself :))


  • #3
    Impetus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    DKmac wrote: »
    Location services on my phone are randomly telling me I'm in Newmarket-on-fergus. Clicked Google maps location and it takes me to some sh!tty apartment block near shannon airport. I live on the opposite side of the country and am nowhere near this place.Is my phone potentially hacked and what should I do?

    It could be many things - including a defect in the phone's GPS system. Normally a phone takes in location data from a number of sources - WiFi location (thanks to Google snooping of WiFi Mac addresses while driving all over the world to take pictures of every street), info from your mobile cellsite and GPS. Maybe there is a bug in the location software on the phone. You don't state what make/model phone. Have you updated the firmware recently? I can't see what benefit the average hacker would get from telling you that you are in a location that you clearly are not in.


  • #4
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,244 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    DKmac wrote: »
    Location services on my phone are randomly telling me I'm in Newmarket-on-fergus. Clicked Google maps location and it takes me to some sh!tty apartment block near shannon airport. I live on the opposite side of the country and am nowhere near this place.Is my phone potentially hacked and what should I do?

    I don't think there's too much to worry about. I've a Samsung Galaxy S4 and it tells me I've been to places of a day, that I've not been near. In fairness these places are reasonably local (within 5-10KM), but it's never that accurate.

    For example, I took my dogs for an hour long walk today, approximately 7KM away from my house, and the only place it showed me going to was my local village 2KM away.


  • #5
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 38,292 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Madness imho to keep 'please build up a comprehensive record of my movements for the authorities' turned on.

    If you really must use it for a specific purpose then turn it off straight afterwards. If nothing else it wastes battery.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #6
    RossieMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭RossieMan


    Sounds like you've your GPS set up to save battery so its probably just using your data to locate you. Can be awful inaccurate.


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  • #7
    quainy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭quainy


    You may have an option to choose the accuracy of your location services.

    It may be set at low or something along that lines. It may be resolved by setting it to high.

    I don't imagine your phone has been hacked as remote access of your phone would not make your phone believe it has been moved.


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