Sat 16-Aug-14 16:16:53
Last night I was happily having a nice soak in the tub with a glass of vino while perusing Mumsnet's Talk forums on my phone. Amid giggling away to myself at an amusing "brass-neckedness" thread I was all of a sudden bombarded with disgusting sexual images of girls by a highly graphic pornographic website. My Mumsnet content had totally disappeared and was replaced with this porn site attempting to download something onto my phone.
I had not searched for it, had not requested it and certainly did not give it permission to download anything to my phone. 3 times I frantically had to stop it trying to download something, whilst it told me I'd be charged for content viewed.
I couldn't understand where this site had just suddenly appeared from and gained access to my phone. Mumsnet doesn't have any porn ads that I could have accidentally clicked on does it???
This caused a row between me & my OH as I quizzed him over whether he'd searched for this filth and inadvertently given it access to other devices in the house connected to the wifi. But he swears he didn't. This morning my phone isn't behaving normally - Apps scattered every where, emails not getting through, keyboard functions out of sorts.
Has this happened to anyone else while using this site? I sometimes let the kids play on my phone and really don't want this coming through again. Im also concerned this was an attempt at identity theft. I have so much of my personal info accessed via my phone - emails, internet banking, paypal account etc. Im so worried that, although I persistently stopped its attempts to download whatever it was, that I've been hacked and theres still something running in the background