A few weeks ago I received an email from a hacker?
He stated that a couple months earlier i was on an insecure Wi-Fi network and he hacked into my firmware system to my iphone 8plus. He then told me that if i didn't send him 900 he would lock my device on me.
Well today, i believe that happened. One second I was able to put my password in. The next i couldn t get in with my thumb print nor my password. I tried to hard reset the phone with the up down volume buttons and side, it looks like it is going to reboot, then turns back on and disables me from the phone for another hour. I tried to connect the phone to my computer to factory reset it but, when I plug it in a message pops up saying "unlock to use usb device"
is this even possible for someone to hack my firmware and change the password on my phone.