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Phone Hacked
How can I tell if my phone is hacked?
Como @philesterhouse says, many different types of attacks. Edward Snowdon has an interesting video, discussing some of the NSA toolkit attacks (listening and viewing while making the phone appear to be off for example) but points out that the vast majority of people are not going to subject to these types of attacks.
If someone such as a spouse has physical access to your phone, then certainly spyware of varying sophistication can be used. But again, you would hopefully be aware if that was a possibility!
The more common, as referenced by @philesterhouse would be stuff spamming you with ads and/or trying to steal credit card/passwords etc. Various scanning programs offer some protection against these types of things.
