Safari problem

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andrew lancaster

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Oct 4, 2022, 3:55:51 AM10/4/22
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Hi. I was playing a Wordle game when I suddenly got a message to say that my phone had been hacked and the App Store opened.
Closing safari and re-opening brought up the same page. I turned of the phone then restarted it - safari still brought up the same page.
I opened settings > safari and cleared data etc. but it still does it.
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andrew lancaster

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Oct 4, 2022, 4:00:12 AM10/4/22
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Update - just gone to settings and cleared safari data etc again and it appears to have worked this time.

I have no idea what happened - it was very circular in that whatever I tried to do in safari took me straight back to the same thing.

Hope it remains ok now.

Thank

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Sam - MacAmbulance

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Oct 4, 2022, 4:03:11 AM10/4/22
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Was that Wordle on the NY Times website, or a wordle-clone? Sounds like a malicious advert which slipped through the cracks of whichever website you were using’s content policy
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Any ideas what I do next?

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andrew lancaster

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Oct 4, 2022, 4:05:06 AM10/4/22
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It was a Wordle clone - one of the many “unlimited” variants. 

Hope it hasn’t actually done anything to my phone! Though it seems ok now. 

Thank you. 

Andrew. 

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Was that Wordle on the NY Times website, or a wordle-clone? Sounds like a malicious advert which slipped through the cracks of whichever website you were using’s content policy

Sam - MacAmbulance

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Oct 4, 2022, 4:08:21 AM10/4/22
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Highly unlikely anything’s installed itself on your phone, another way of removing it is to tap the bottom right icon for managing tabs in Safari and close the tab with the advert

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andrew lancaster

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Oct 4, 2022, 4:11:48 AM10/4/22
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Thanks for that Sam. Very reassuring!

Andrew. 

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Highly unlikely anything’s installed itself on your phone, another way of removing it is to tap the bottom right icon for managing tabs in Safari and close the tab with the advert
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