I think I have been hacked

[_slicksean_]

Well it's just that Everytime I try to look at the the weather on my phone it brings up a Turkish word saying Kismen Gunesli I do not know how to fix this and it always displays the wrong temperature of where I am at and Everytime I look up something on the regular Google widget it sends me to a random tab in my chrome browser someone plz help!!!!

 

[Hadron]

There is usually a simpler explanation than someone hacking your phone in order to make your weather widget think it is in Turkey. What is interesting here is that you have another widget that shows a different location, so the question is what is different between those? Do they have different location access (coarse vs fine on their privileges)?

One common way that location gets messed up is that Google's map of where cell towers or WiFi routers are is out of date (often because someone has moved and Google thinks their router is still at their old address). A different country is more unusual, but not unheard of. And weather apps usually only use wireless ("coarse") location. So if you get the right location when using GPS only ("device only") location mode and wrong when using wireless only ("low power") that might indicate that this is the case here. If this only happens when you are in a particular place then I'm certain that is the cause.

 

[Andrea Galindo]

From Accuweather Twitter

THANK YOU to our many loyal users who have alerted us they are experiencing location and temperature discrepancies. We are aware of the situation, and we are actively working to address it now. We look forward to updating you.


If anyone was hacked it was them lol. I added a new city with my zip code and it started to work fine.

 

[_slicksean_]

There is usually a simpler explanation than someone hacking your phone in order to make your weather widget think it is in Turkey. What is interesting here is that you have another widget that shows a different location, so the question is what is different between those? Do they have different location access (coarse vs fine on their privileges)?

One common way that location gets messed up is that Google's map of where cell towers or WiFi routers are is out of date (often because someone has moved and Google thinks their router is still at their old address). A different country is more unusual, but not unheard of. And weather apps usually only use wireless ("coarse") location. So if you get the right location when using GPS only ("device only") location mode and wrong when using wireless only ("low power") that might indicate that this is the case here. If this only happens when you are in a particular place then I'm certain that is the cause.

I just had to force stop chrome and weather thx

 

[_slicksean_]

There is usually a simpler explanation than someone hacking your phone in order to make your weather widget think it is in Turkey. What is interesting here is that you have another widget that shows a different location, so the question is what is different between those? Do they have different location access (coarse vs fine on their privileges)?

One common way that location gets messed up is that Google's map of where cell towers or WiFi routers are is out of date (often because someone has moved and Google thinks their router is still at their old address). A different country is more unusual, but not unheard of. And weather apps usually only use wireless ("coarse") location. So if you get the right location when using GPS only ("device only") location mode and wrong when using wireless only ("low power") that might indicate that this is the case here. If this only happens when you are in a particular place then I'm certain that is the cause.

Nvm it did it again im just gonna install a new browser and weather app

 

[ZMAX4EVER]

There's a guy in the ZMAX PRO forum claiming his wife loaded up his phone with spyware. So, I'm gonna guess that dude's wife is behind all of this somehow.