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Help Have I been hacked ? Xperia Z3 reset itself to factory settings

AntonyBaker

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Mar 15, 2015
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Hello

I woke this morning to see that my phone which I left charging all night was sitting at the setup screen. I had no choice but to comply with the regional settings etc, and prayed that once I had completed, my data would still be there, it wasn't.

What would appear to have happened is that during the night, my mobile phone reset itself to factory settings. I have lost everything, all data, all messages, all music etc. Its even deleted all of the data from the sd card ! Has anyone ever encountered anything as truly weird as this ??

Not sure what more info I can give from a support perspective.

I am really worried that someone may have hacked the handset and forced the reset. I am also worried that if I setup everything again from scratch, all of that info will be available to whoever broke into the phone.

Please help
 
Yeah, if you're worried, go online and change your passwords, especially for Gmail.

Then factory data reset and start over.

Rather than mad hacking skills, it's far more likely that someone learned your Gmail password another way, like watching you type it in somewhere.

And far, far more likely than either is that you got hit by a power surge and your phone did what it had to to recover itself.

I've watched it happen in real time with mine, more than once.

Anyway - reset your password to be safe and start over.

Also check out Helium Backup from the Play Store because it's a phone and stuff happens.

Best luck, hope this helps!
 
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It happened to mine at about 4am this morning. I was actually in a dispute over a Gmail reset on a business email account and texting when my phone just reset itself, I was actually trying to look up how I can track if there was a reset request processed by someone's computer, but seeing this, I'm thinking there may have been another issue.
 
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