Mystery, intrigue, nude photos, more: are Google technicians hacking Pixels mailed in for repair?

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Game designer tweets warning: Don’t mail your phone back to Google

She wrote, “Yeah, don’t send your Google phone in for warranty repair/replacement. As has happened with others, last night someone used it to log into my gmail, Drive, photos backup email account, dropbox, and I can see from activity logs they opened a bunch of selfies hoping to find nudes.” She added that “the photos they opened were of me in bathing suits, sports bras, form-fitting dresses, and of stitches after surgery. They deleted Google security notifications in my backup email accounts.”

As we said, the phone was shipped for repairs to the same address in Texas that McGonigal used to send her phone to Google. The victimized couple found unexplained logins on Facebook and Instagram from Texas, and the last ping came from the same building where the phone was shipped. Does that sound like a coincidence to anyone?

The husband said that when he called Google, they told him something along the lines of “woah, that’s f****d up.” So the man filed a police report but closed out his post by saying, “What are my options here for suing Google. I know that sounds insane but this breach of trust and privacy is egregious. Hundreds of people have now seen my penis including our friends’ kids…”

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So what seems to have occurred here, and this is just speculation, is that the two devices were repaired at Google’s facilities and since they could not be wiped, someone took the opportunity to hack into the phones. In the states, Google has a partnership with uBreakiFix. If you need your Pixel repaired, you might want to see if there is a franchise open near you.

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