Hi. The device name “HonHaiPr” has skipped around to a number of my devices over the past year and there is no good reason for this. Once the PS4, today, the Hp laptop. When not mysteriously showing up as “HonHaiPr” these devices are appropriately labeled as they should be, as one would expect to see them with their actual manufacturer listed where it should be.
So, yes, this should cause concern.
These are clearly all hacks. Some causing sudden data drains increasing some folks’ data usage on their internet accounts that have jacked their bills up over $100 more per month, with no way that they know of to stop it nor remove nor block this mysterious device. And how, when it masquerades as a device that rightly should be connected to their network? An expensive device that, sometimes, is brand new (our Ps4, for example) or is a means for a family head to run their home’s affairs (mom’s laptop, to provide another example).
To get to the bottom of this, I went searching through my laptop to uninstall the latest Windows update that I was certain contained the most recent infiltration. What I found was three new network connections that did not even exist (on my end and anywhere in my house—that any of us initiated, at least) and in device and program lists, the word “root” more times than I needed to see to confirm my suspicions.
So, the question is: are individual devices hacked, one by one, via the wifi or is the wifi in general hacked? That there is a hack is not even the question anymore. It has been established as fact (so says my drained and since closed bank account).
When I decided three years after having AT&T wifi installed in my home to make them our wireless (cell) provider as well, while standing in the AT&T store using their wifi, I got a warning from Lookout on my already-hacked Android phone to immediately end my wifi connection as suspicious monitoring of their network was detected. My home wifi is hacked and I have never seen any such message before, so this was particularly concerning. What is more concerning is the fact that store employees were not concerned and shrugged it off, saying that this has been a problem there and to ignore it. Well, that Andriod was already hacked, so what did I have to worry about?
Within a month of using my new iphone XR, I discovered that someone somewhere already had been, as a Youtube account was already setup on the app that I downloaded that day to play something to soothe a friend’s screaming infant. It said hello to some name I have never heard of and when I investigated the Google account that Youtube was welcoming back, all info was fictitious except that the DOB used was merely one day away from mine—month and year were exactly the same. Just as alarming as the fact that whomever was tapping my bank account waited 16+ months of robbing me of minimal amounts until I discovered the infiltration to drain the account completely in one day.
I do not yet know who is behind this mass hack of everybody’s everything nor why. But it’s time to wake up to the fact that we all are so we can figure out what they want and who they are. I was alerted to this problem by someone within it. Multiple times within just several months I have been allowed to see that this is happening. I just don’t know why. Maybe just because someone somewhere (that has clearly been e-stalking me for a grip) knew I would eventually spread the word. I’m tired of seeing in every forum I find in my search results that this is not a threat.
Someone somewhere is. And I doubt it is just one person. Why? Where? How has it affected you personally? Have you been allowed to see that yet? Check your credit reports. Check bank accounts. Check everything, because that is what “they” have access to now. Not just your devices, but your entire household’s identities.
Maybe that’s what “they” wanted. According to my Bing search results just today, “they” have been harvesting this data for over a decade already. Or simply using our devices to transport their own. Or disguise their own. Which, if anyone fears federal prison for fraudulent crimes or terrorist acts they know nothing of, I’d say that’s a real concern, too.
Now what do we all do about it?