By Damilola Ojo http://nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng/4-clear-signs-your-phone-was-hacked/

With the rising vice of hacking in our society, it is important to know about some clear signs that can help you discern if your phone has been tampered with in any way. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 clear signs your phone was hacked.

Your Phone Suddenly Reboots Itself

This can be caused by two main things. The first is that your phone might be experiencing some performance issues, a system breakdown of some sort. The second is that it might of course have been hacked and the sudden reboot is a consequence of your phone being tapped. Other signs that accompany your phone’s sudden reboot is your phone also suddenly dialing numbers and starting applications on its own.

 

Noises or Echos During Your Calls

If you all of a sudden start to hear noises or echos during your calls, and this has never happened when you’re either calling those number or making the calls at that location, your phone might have been hacked and your calls are probably being monitored or listened in on.

 

Appearance of Mysterious Apps

You can all of sudden notice apps on your phone you don’t remember installing, while this might mean that a friend or relative might have installed it without permission, if you can’t point to anyone of those who have access to your phone as the one responsible for installing the app, then you can at that point consider that your phone might have been hacked. Hackers can plant apps on phones to snoop, perform actions on their behalf, explore calendars, access GPS etc. These ‘hacker apps’ can be even be hidden on your phone and be running in the background, this is why you might notice a rapidly decreasing battery life or your phone getting warm out of the blue without you making calls with it or working with it in anyway. To deal with this, it is best to avoid downloading just any kind of app, especially those that come with pop-up ads.

 

Strange Texts

If you notice strange SMS text messages on your phone or texts that appear as a single square or other strange characters, that might be an attempt by hackers to download spyware or malware onto your device. You should take note of this and be
careful of it.

Wetin concern me

Features of a CIA movie

I see no reason y someone would hack my phone anyway

Litblogger:
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I taught u would have stopped this last year

Nice tips like soft tits

Who wan even hack my phone self? E tey wen I comment for nairaland o. Hack my phone and the only thing wen u go the see na "You just withdrew your remaining 500naira in your bank account."

Cool!
Check my signature

This shiit happens to my phone a lot these days

Noted.

Thank you for the information what about the solution.

In Nigeria, if any of the above should happen then it's network issue

Nice.
I have experienced few of the mentioned. Who's tryna spy on me?.

Shey in Nigeria?

if you are in Nigeria then two of those things you mentioned are caused by network providers

I weak

Good alert but how about the remedies in the even of a phone hack. I think would come in very handy!

If u try to hack my line u just waste ur time

This happens to my Nokia Touch ...does it mean dat my precious Nokia has been hacked

op, how do we stop it or what's the way out?

cos most of the things u wrote up there do happen with my phone, especially downloading strange apps, the stuff normally subscribes to any package from my network provider.. drains my credit.

i normally turn of "installation of apps from unknown source", but after sometimes it turns on itself.

i really need a way out...

thesettingz:

I taught u would have stopped this last year

My phone is protected by the blood of jesus
Hacking is not authorized.

Ways to disable,tell us please.

Abeg wetin be the way forward because I dey receive some strange text. Gracias

OP what's the solution?