I’m running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back.

I’m a bit confused how this even happened. When I got the phone back, they were going through my contacts. I checked app usage stats and they went through a banking app (not missing money), maps, signal, etc.

Is there a way to figure out how they even unlocked my phone?

  • SomeBoyo@feddit.de
    5·
    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t a thief just factory reset and sell it, instead of taking the additional risk of returning it?

    • Sarsoar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      1 year ago

      Unless they installed some spyware to try to steal more passwords, or duplicated the 2fa auth keys, or have some rmeote viewer app running now to steal text 2fa keys, or whatever else. You could steal way more in the long term than the couple of hundred that a used phone would go for.