Alta. mother says her private information stolen after she downloaded a game onto her iPad

A mother in Cochran is sounding the alarm about a gaming app she claims she was hacked after downloading the game onto her daughter’s tablet and has spent the last eight months trying to recover her online accounts as Terry fikowski reports she hopes her online nightmare will be a warning about the importance

Of protecting your Digital Data you want to help me find all the rest of the panda Suzanne jarman’s 9-year-old daughter loves animals live animals game animals in February she downloaded wolf online 2 to her daughter’s iPad from Apple’s App Store as a protective mother I ended up downloading it onto my iPad

As well and we would play together the game is interactive with online players but jarmin became suspicious of some of the other Gamers there was a a time when it seemed like there was a screen sharing almost um like my character disappeared and and you could just see

His character name and and he was saying don’t move she immediately deleted the game but things quickly snowballed I went into my notes folder just for a second and and there was a new shared folder that had all my financial files moved into it hackers changed her Apple

ID and password stole her Banking and tax information broke into her social accounts and she lost access to photos of her late husband but it was a feeling of invasiveness this is my life like I had everything on the cloud she wiped her devices and created new accounts and

Passwords but the problems persist 8 months later other users have similar complaints about being hacked in the online review of the app I’ve learned anything that you have on your devices is capable of being taken from you at one point that’s a sentiment shared by Dr Tom Keenan the author of techn creed

It’s not a question of uh if this is going to happen to you it’s a question of when he encourages people to have strong passwords change them often and install anti-malware software he stresses anything private should be stored on a USB stick or external hard drive if you have just written the Great

Canadian novel or you have the formula for cocacola don’t put it up on the cloud because the cloud like any other computer can be hacked German hopes her nightmare will act as a warning to others and wants to see the game taken down I don’t want to see it happen to

Anybody else Terry fosi CTV News Cochran so Apple says it’s looking into the situation and it encourages its users to review its guidelines and security tips for iCloud and Apple ID CTV News has reached out to the developers of wolf online to and have yet to hear back

A Cochrane mother claims she was hacked after downloading a game onto her daughter’s tablet. Teri Fikowski explains.

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