Can You Hack a Spouse’s Phone?

The short answer is everything is indeed hackable. But how much effort you must put into it depends on how much your husband pays attention.

“Hacking” is often misconstrued, and we like to think of it the way movies and TV portray it. Here’s a fun hacking scene from Chuck.

Mr Robot gets acclaim from the hacker community for finally portraying most aspects of actual hacker culture of its era correctly, but even it uses a few generalizations.

They make it seem so complicated and technical (which it can be), but really hacking often boils down to exploiting a person’s naivety.

If you’re looking to hack a loved one, congratulations. Humans are always the weakest link in any security system, and you have direct access to the primary source. You also have access to his phone while it is unattended. That goes for all of his devices, including any computers, video game consoles, etc. You even assumably share accounts for things and likely have shared passwords.

You couldn’t ask for more possible entry points to work with. Companies and governments spend a lot of money to learn things you inherently know about your target.

Here are just a few things you can do if you need to get into his phone:

1 – From the phone itself, you can enter the passcode. If it requires a finger or face scan to open, do it while he is asleep. If he’s awake and you have the type of relationship where you can ask to use his phone, that works too. The point is to directly install a remote monitoring app on the device. If you were a 1337 network engineer, you can make whatever changes you need, but if you’re a noob, just download a spy app.

From there, you can login at any time to see what he’s doing in real time just like the government does. This is the deepest access you’ll get as though you’re right there on his phone with him at all times.

2 – Depending on whether he’s using an iPhone or Android, you can go after his Apple or Google account. You’re married, so I assume you know this username and the type of phone he has. Now, this gets tricky. These companies are hacked in perpetuity, but you won’t make a dent. There are ways to find passwords, but two-factor authentication makes it somewhat worthless. However, before getting his passwords, you should run a skip trace on his digital footprint.

3 – skip tracing is the process of finding information about people, including their address, email, employer, relatives, etc. As we move through the online world, we leave quite the paper trail that can be traced. Input your husband’s phone number, name, age, and email address into the right skip trace or data broker service, and you’ll find all sorts of valuable information about him. You can discover his most used user names, hidden social media accounts, secret email addresses he doesn’t want you to know about, IP addresses he created accounts from, and more. there’s a gold mine of information you can learn about somebody online with just a few points of data to start with. And because he’s your husband, you have everything you need.

4 – Once you know all his login IDs and email addresses, simply plug them into data dumps from various hacks over the last decade to get his passwords from different places and find out his password patterns. From there, you have a general idea of how to login to all of the accounts found in step 3. Not only that, but you can start guessing and accessing all of his older forgotten accounts that he no longer has the apps for and don’t pay attention to. When you’ve breached somebody’s online identity, you can see all sorts of things they think are private.

5 – Now that you’ve breached his device and accounts, there’s also his network. If you are the administrator of a network (or simply have the right network sniffing tools), you can monitor and record all traffic going in and out. So from your router/modem level, you can monitor everything happening while his phone is connected to the home network. This takes a bit of learning about networking, but it’s worthwhile to keep an eye on things at home.

Hopefully this helps. There are a lot more complicated ways of hacking somebody, but this should be enough to rotate through and get the hang of it using your husband as a Guinea pig.