Ok this is crazy, but here we go. 

I’m worried my kindle was hacked and want to run it by you people so you can tell me if I’m just losing my ever loving mind. 

Background: yesterday I went to see the movie “the amateur” starring Rami Malek who also starred in the USA tv series Mr. Robot which was all about hacking. I had my iPhone with me and my kindle. Both had Bluetooth and WiFi on. Before the movie started I tried to check some webpages on my iPhone but couldn’t get the internet to work even though I had full bars. After the movie was over when I opened my iPhone it was saying I needed to enter a verification code on my iPhone to access my iCloud. 

Symptoms from my kindle:
So after I leave the movie 

1. my kindle is very sluggish. I have never seen it act this way. It was so bad I did a force restart to try and clear it. 

2. The power was draining very quickly. I was at 30% power that afternoon and by that night I was down to 5% and then as I was watching it it instantly went to 4%

3. When I tried to look up a word in my dictionary I see two foreign language dictionaries I don’t recognize (Chinese and Japanese). Also all the custom dictionaries I had previously installed are gone. (Pictured). 

4. I charged it overnight and it only got up to 90%. When I take it off the charger it instantly starts dropping percentage (at least I saw it tick down to 89% almost immediately) 

Possibly relevant: 
I did manually update to the latest firmware maybe a week ago with no apparent issues and I’ve been using this device regularly since the upgrade. 


My wife suggested that the language dictionaries may be necessary so they can display words in the translation feature but it’s just a hopeful guess. Like maybe it’s a feature not a hack. 

Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Do kindles get hacked through Bluetooth? 

Would a factory reset fix a device that had been hacked (if hacking a kindle is even possible)?

Do you have these dictionaries on your kindles? 

Device: 2022 kindle basic 

Firmware: 5.18.1 





Do kindles get hacked?