The post's author reportedly conteacted Google regarding the issue and filed a police report. The customer tracked down these unauthorized logins to Texas, and location data from the Find My Device tool reportedly pointed to the same building that Google had the phone sent to for repair. A PayPal account was also accessed, and a small $5 sum of money was stolen - possibly a "test" for a larger amount later. The hijacker also tried to lock the customer from their Google account. "Hundreds of people have now seen my penis including our friends kids." One month after the phone was sent in, social media accounts for the author's wife were hijacked to show nude images of the author and his wife.
The phone couldn't be wiped as it wouldn't power on, and a lock screen password or PIN was not set. In short, the author's wife damaged her Pixel and sent it to Google for an RMA. Unfortunately, the original account and all related comments have since been deleted. Though we attempted to reach out to the author for more information last week, they weren't interested in talking at the time.
The first report was delivered via a post last Wednesday (December 1st) to the r/legaladvice subreddit and originated from a multiple-year-old account.
Game designer and New York Times bestselling author Jane McGonigal also later tweeted out her own report detailing someone's attempts to secure similar information from her account, trawling her Gmail, Google Drive, and other data backup sources after she sent her phone to Google for repair. In one instance, someone allegedly took "nudes" from the device and posted them on a customer's social media account before stealing a small sum via PayPal. Over the week, two Pixel owners have publicly reported that devices sent back to Google for warranty service and replacement were used to violate their privacy.
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