MacBook accepetd a FaceTime call from an unknown caller automatically.

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JMen2019 Author

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MacBook accepetd a FaceTime call from an unknown caller automatically.

When I opened my Mac this morning from sleep mode there was a call that was from someone called "David" and it was over 14hrs into the call. I am concerned someone could have been listening all night while I was sleeping and getting ready this morning. I didn't call anyone last night. The call appeared as a normal phone call does when I am talking to someone on my Mac with audio only. This morning I was on the phone talking to a known caller when I noticed this. The creepy call also didn't end after my call ended with the known person I was speaking with. I ended the over 14hr call right after, and it appeared on my FaceTime recent callers list, but not on my iPhone under Recents. Now (10 mins later) the name no longer appears in the recent contacts list on FaceTime on my Mac (where it appeared originally), and it didn't appear in FaceTime on my phone. This is really disconcerting. I expect much better security than this. Again, I never answered any calls last night. Thankfully, my Mac is in a different room than my bedroom. Unfortunately, I do not have any photos to prove this situation because my instinct was to hangup and try to trace the call, but the data about the call is gone, and I wish I took a picture of what I was seeing.

PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS AND CREATE A SECURITY PATCT THAT PREVENTS FACETIME FROM BEING ABLE TO ANSWER CALLS WITHOUT HUMAN INTERACTION. I Should be able to answer a call, my Mac shouldn't be allowing strangers in another location from being able to call me and have my FaceTime pick up their call. This is exceptionally disturbing. This is not an ordinary ghost call either. It is almost similar, but there was some deeper hacking involved because no one answered any calls last night and it was only on my Mac, not my phone.

Could Apple's Intelligence and AI software be compromised? This could be lowering the security of FaceTime on customer's MacBooks and possibly even phones. Over 14 hours some creep was listening.

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MacBook Air

Posted on Dec 11, 2024 6:13 AM

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WheelieNick

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Dec 11, 2024 7:37 AM in response to JMen2019

This Is weird, you might want to get in to contact with apple to see if they can look into it, please Contact - Official Apple Support

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JMen2019 Author

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Dec 11, 2024 8:25 AM in response to WheelieNick

Yeah, I had the same thoughts. I am going to contact them today when I get a chance to see if they can investigate this. I am curious to see if anyone else has had this experience, or has this experience in the future. I hope there is a security fix that protects users from this type of situation in the future.

I wonder if in the way that Siri can hear and respond to its name when you are having a conversation with someone and didn't even say Siri and yet Siri will eavesdrop and perform actions based on the conversation it hears, if this sensitivity to it's name could trigger Siri to pick up an incoming ghost call while the user is asleep and no one else is around? More specifically, I wonder if Siri is too sensitive in its capabilities, and if Siri and the new "Apple Intelligence" capabilities open Apple devices up to security attacks and breaches, such as the one I experienced?

The hack involves being able to call and answer that incoming call remotely without any physical human-interaction on the user's end. This, I believe, is the crux of the security issue I experienced. In addition to that, when I ended the call briefly I could see a call from "David" logged, but after I closed FaceTime and re-opened it the logged call from David was gone and there was no trace. This call was never logged on my iPhone. In fact, I was using my iPhone all morning before opening my computer and until I opened my computer I had no idea a call was even occurring.

I appreciate your response, and any future responses from anyone regarding this mysterious and unsettling security breach. I will contact Apple Support on this today, and hopefully I will get a chance to post their response in order to provide help for anyone else that experiences this.

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