[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] PhAkEer:
I believe it began with an SQL injection but that is speculation.

Not knowing how/why was the tormenting part.

Yes, yes.

One thing I can say for certain is that if I am paranoid it is a product of this. When it began I refused to even to accept that that level of data manipulation was possible without 1st person root access at some point in the process but that part is well past proven.

As stated, even a full factory re-flash performed by Sprint techs (at more store than one store) could not remove the root kit and that would have not even been known if not for the fact that I had my own custom boot image that had been hacked and no amount of re-flashing would restore the stock boot image.

Furthermore, a few months back when I had my phone replaced through Asurion it started acting strange within ten minutes of activation while the only account that was associated with the phone at all was the Sprint account itself. No apps, no social network bs, no Google, and no root.

I verified that indeed this new (refurb) was building up its resources. Somehow there is an ability to access adb over the network without adb even being enabled... I had files in places that I was used to seeing them that I later found do not belong there at all...indicating that perhaps I had been hacked far longer than I realized.

Despite Sprint having record of these hacks and that Sprint's own network was the likeliest of sources, no effort was made on their part to resolve the issue. In fact, they laughed at me and said it wasn't possible. I ended up on the line with a "fraud department" where an assumed overweight middle-american divorcee carefully critiqued my every word while laughing before telling me that it isn't possible.

I called Sprint the next day to followup and hopefully get somebody reasonable on the phone.

This proved difficult when my password that had remained the same since I joined Sprint was all of a sudden changed along with the PIN that had also always been the same. The sent me an email with my login info...

The new password : Defraud

The new PIN: my old MSL from my first Epic which I wasn't even aware of when the account/pin were made.

The technician I spoke with said that it's right there in my account information that the techs in the store encountered a hack they could not remove. He couldn't tell me why I was being ridiculed by Sprint employees who already have the information from their own sources and he suggested I return to a store and get an MSID swap, which I had already been told by Sprint was "impossible" when I suggested it myself.

No avail. The phone has been replaced another two times because they have also given up and refuse to look into where the security breach is.

When I spoke with a friendly police officer about a hypothetical situation similar he said the easiest route is to change the phone's numbers or maybe even carriers as it would be unlikely they could "prove" anything that Sprint doesn't have proof of.

Besides, no matter what way I slice this, there is no version of the story in which I do not know the person responsible. This would be far more evident if I were willing to share the parts of the story that are very personal but alas, I don't need to speculate because any attempt to even describe the type of manipulation being utilized would leave me sounding insane and would be irrelevant in a case where all of the facts already support its existence.

Of the things altered that I confirmed beyond any shadow of doubt were: most google apps (at a point), my amazon accout (lord knows how...), my Sprint account (my calls were being recorded via my voicemail apk... I even found some of the recordings on a few occasions before they had uploaded/deleted ...and my phone shouldn't even be capable of this especially considering it is illegal to record your own phone calls in my state...).. the list goes on and on and the most disturbing aspect wasn't that they had access... it was what they would do with it.

And none of that was worried me most, all I could wonder was how I could have somebody so intent on hurting me that they would go through the effort involved if I didn't even recall slightly offending anyone.

The only reason I even mention what I have is because I think that these are the parts we need to discuss and figure out how to prevent or how to utilize.

Does that satisfy enough curiosity or would I need to do what I will not by revealing every twisted little joke they had?