Female game designer sent to repair Google mobile phone: private photos were leaked

Recently, it was reported that game designer and writer Jane McGonigal (Jane McGonigal) revealed on Twitter that after he repaired Google Pixel5a, his phone was hacked and his private photos were also leaked. According to 9to5Google, Jane McGonigal did not restore the Google Pixel 5a to factory settings due to damage to the device.

Then, Jane McGonigal found in the login log that someone had logged in to her Gmail mailbox, Drive, photo album, Dropbox and other software. People with black phones saw Jane McGonigal’s swimsuit photos, post-operation photos and other private photos.

 

In this regard, Google said that it had not received the device mailed by @Jane McGonigal, and said that it would investigate this situation, and it is recommended that users restore the phone to factory settings before sending the device for repair.

Netizens complained about this suggestion: Google is also a bit funny, saying that the phone cannot be turned on when the phone is broken, so how can I restore the factory settings?

It was said that she had not received it, but in the following weeks, she was charged for the replacement of the equipment. And, FedEx’s tracking information shows that the device has successfully arrived at the company’s Pixel repair facility in Texas.

To make matters worse, after receiving a refund for her device, someone cleared two-factor authentication (2FA) with the lost phone and checked and logged in to several of McGonigal’s online accounts, including her cloud storage and email client .

This triggered email security alerts for several McGonigal backup accounts. However, she speculates that whoever owns the phone may use it to access her backup email address and then forward any security alerts to her spam folder.

Previously, a user reported in the Reddit community that he sent his device to a repair point in Texas. The naked photos of himself and his wife were accessed by hackers. The hackers also posted these photos on the social platform. The user’s PayPal It was also stolen.

In June of this year, after a maintenance technician posted a nude photo of a woman to Facebook, Apple paid her millions of dollars. Apple said it will sell DIY repair kits, so that users have the opportunity to complete them by themselves or at least someone they trust, instead of sending or throwing their phones to Apple’s official retail stores.

 

Famous futurist, director of game research and development of the future trend think tank “Future Institute”, chief designer of 42Entertainment, a well-known interactive entertainment service company in the United States, and video game industry ambassador with a global output value of US$60.4 billion. Emerging speakers at TED conference, more attention than Bill Gates, ranked 16th; “New Yorker Conference” (New Yorker Conference) (New Yorker Conference) invited speakers, the main speaker of the Game Developers Conference.

He was hailed as one of the “Top Ten Most Important Innovators” by Business Weekly, “One of the 100 Creative Business People in the World” by the global media “Fast Company”, and was hailed as “Global One of the 20 most amazing women”, her view was hailed as “*a breakthrough concept” by the Harvard Business Review.

Her work is often published in authoritative media such as The Economist, Wired, The New York Times, MTV, CNN and NPR.

In 2011, Jane McGonigal published Reality Is Broken (“Games Changing the World”)