Reason #157 of why not to jailbreak your Iphone.

When someone jailbreaks a Iphone, he would probably enable SSH which allows a user to enter terminal and run standard UNIX commands. What people don’t realize when they break the Iphone is that there is a default password, and don’t bother to change it..

DANG DANG DDAAANNNNGGGG

So, a hacker in the Netherlands when around tapping into people’s jailbreaken Iphones and sending them the above message. The site redirects people to a site where the user is asked to pay €5 for instructions to make the Iphone “secure”.

The message below is shown to them.

“If you don’t pay, it’s fine by me, but remember, the way I got access to your iPhone can be used by thousands of others—they can send text messages from your number (like I did), use it to call or record your calls, and actually whatever they want, even use it for their hacking activities! I can assure you, I have no intention of harming you or whatever, but, some hackers do! It’s just my advice to secure your phone.”

Apple has a history of making their devices secure, meaning there is restraints. Companies do listen to feedback- but thProxy-Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0

gs we want are not worth lowering the standards.

The hacker then since returned the money and posted instructions how to remove the instructions, but let this be a lesson- check EVERYTHING before you attempt to hack a device.

Via Ars Technica