[Swordmaker]

I very much doubt that her iPhone was compromised, especially with the Facebook component and after hours phone calls that precedes the chase that lead into the story. There is something else going on here. She has a fairly tech sophisticated stalker who has phished her in some other way and gotten her private information from some other source. She needs to start carrying a gun.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I smell a "Lifetime" TV movie in the works …
 

[Swordmaker]

Texas woman chased by man on the road gets a phone call from him on her iPhone 7, thinks her phone may have been hacked to get her phone number. I think it's highly unlikely, especially during a high speed chase at up to 94 MPH. More likely this stalker has phished her information in some other way. —PING!

Apple iPhone 7 Security Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[mabarker1]

Or have a 1911 and go ahead and pull over and if needed take the offender out while on the phone with 911.

[House Atreides]

Well....now we know where “Q” went to.

[PGR88]

Women alone, especially in unknown areas, are always vulnerable to stalkers and freaks. Its a fact of life.

Being a pretty large guy, of course I never experienced anything like it, or thought about it, until similar incidents happened to my wife and some female colleagues.

[Hot Tabasco]

I have an Android Galaxy s6. Two weeks ago I met a friend at an indoor golf dome. A couple days later I received a notification from Google requesting I rate the place. How the heck did Google know I was there?

I had my phone with me but I never used it. In fact, I never use it for directions.........

Evidently there is something in the phone that allows Google to track my every movement......

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Sounds like a broad brush smear campaign of AirDrop without any facts to back it up. AirDrop is incredibly useful in our household and we use it frequently. Our computers have to be within about 10 feet of our phones for it to work - BlueTooth is seriously attenuated by simple stud and sheetrock walls. It may work for 30 feet in open, unobstructed rooms, but not through walls.

It broadcasts your name and (apparently) a hash of your phone number. Anybody can find my name in a gazillion public records.

There’s something else going on here.

[JohnBrowdie]

indeed. even if her iPhone was compromised, it's certainly because she was using it wrong. and why wouldn't she WANT her iphone compromised? if her iPhone was compromised, it was doing exactly what it should have been doing, because it was doing it, and it's her iPhone. iPhones always do exactly what they should do, and in just the right amount, and at just the right time.

these are not the droids you are looking for

[Skywise]

Airdrop is a red herring. People can send you files but you have to acknowledge them on your phone before recieving and can disallow it. There’s also no real personal information given out through the airDrop name. Although it’s always funny getting on an airplane or going out in public and then sharing a picture or link and seeing dozens of nearby users pop up.
You should definitely have your airdrop configured to only recieve from contacts.

It IS possible to have equipment to see all cell phone activity in an area and he could’ve had that. That number plus seeing her name on AirDrop would be enough to do it.

As for being compromised - he obviously did that far earlier.

[I want the USA back]

A fraud of an article. It is not about an “iPhone setting” as the headline lyingly blasts. The skillfull writing serves to ramp up the suspense, but gives us no trustworthy information. We are genuinely afraid for her, and ready and willing to blame her danger on the iPhone. But it’s not the iPhone that is the source of the danger. It’s possibly an app, called AirDrop.
The writer of the article is just a typical incompetent journalist trying to make a buck, so this is not surprising.

[tired&retired]

I always keep the Bluetooth off and the file sharing setting off to stop data transfer.

[KrisKrinkle]

“I was only doing 74 mph. There were four lanes of traffic and I was in the slow lane, and I couldn’t figure out why he wasn’t passing me.”

Really? Only 74? In the slow lane?

More importantly: Since she had a phone, why didn’t she call 911?

[mac_truck]

All that tech, did she get the guys license number?

[ASOC]

I carry & use a cheap POS $26 flip phone.

When not actively making a call, it stays off. When driving, it is always off. That is what a voice mailbox is used for .....

[dila813]

Her Samsung work phone got hacked and got access to her social network accounts.