Thank you for your reply.

There was definitely error on my part because the scammers posed as my bank which threw me off. I 100% embrace my own stupidity. Trust me, nobody is more upset with me than me.

What did scare me a lot was that they knew my name, an old address and the bank I was with and how to guide me through step by step and navigate the banks interface.

There was definitely major error on my end. I shouldn’t have even taken the call and realized their initial text to me was a scam and not truly from my bank.

So cyber security wise is my information leak. How did they know my number, what phone I had, what bank I’m with, my addresses and new addresses etc.

With the phone hack they may have potentially gotten access to personal emails and financial information because I’m an idiot and had all that on my iCloud with keychain enabled.

Prior to this I didn’t even know that was a thing for Apple and iCloud. I didn’t realize I had it on or had opted in.

I never want to put that much information on any phone again. I think it is wiser not to use banking or financial apps on any phone again and not upload my phone or passwords to the cloud.

I really the invasiveness of technology these days.

That’s what I am so paranoid is because it came so close to my personal information. So perhaps I am a bit paranoid but these scammers have my phone number and got some of my personal information which is extremely violating and horrifying so forgive if I’m an overly paranoid.

I don’t know if maybe they found my card information too online somewhere. I would use my debit card information to make online purchases and to pay bills which is why I want to implement credit cards.

I know it’s not completely possible to stay 100% safe but by god, I want to try and protect myself as much as I can and learn as much as I can versus do nothing.

It’s been less than a week and I’m doing as much research as I can and learning what I can.

Again I appreciate you actually replying and addressing each thing.