u/Particular-Let972

I had a flight that was canceled yesterday and I spent the night sleeping in the airport for my early morning flight the next day. I didnt sleep much and was exhausted. Once on the flight I was sitting next to a guy and we started talking. He said he worked in cybersecurity and showed me a “jailbreak” phone he had with all kinds of apps he said were used by hackers. He also had a device that was basically a raspberry pi with a bunch of preloaded hacker stuff on it. Most of what he was saying went over my head as I’m not super tech savvy.
Anyhow, I had my iPad in my bag and it was on airplane mode, but I know the Bluetooth was still on so I could use my AirPods if I wanted. I never took it out of my bag, but I was using my iPhone in airplane mode with Bluetooth turned on (again in case I wanted to use my AirPods). After talking to him, I turned Bluetooth on my phone off, but forgot to do it for my iPad. Also important is that I had been traveling for eight days and my iPad had been in airplane mode the whole time.
After we had a lull in conversation, I asked him if leaving Bluetooth on made people vulnerable to being hacked because it just dawned on me that it was a possibility. He said yes, it was a vulnerability and it was best to keep Bluetooth off unless you were actively using it. So I switched the Bluetooth on my phone off, but forgot to do it on my tablet.

A bit later I noticed he attached a small antenna to his raspberry pi device. I didn’t think about it until I got home and I turned my iPad airplane mode off and then my iPhone asked if I wanted to pair my iPad back to my phone. I thought it was weird, but I checked the serial number on my iPad and it matched the number my phone said was trying to pair with it. So I allowed the pairing. I then started thinking about that guy on the plane and am seriously concerned that he got into my iPad because the Bluetooth was on in the plane and now he was in my iPad and getting into my iPhone. I did a google search to see if it was normal for a previously connected iPad to need re-pairing to my phone after being in airplane mode for a week. My search said it was normal after being “disconnected” because of airplane mode for an extended period of time.

Now I’m sorta freaked out that I’ve been hacked by this guy and his antenna device. I haven’t noticed anything else strange, and both devices are updated with the latest apple updates. Am I right to be worried? What should I do?

I originally got a 5 tooth bridge span to replace 2 missing teeth in April 2023. I was very diligent in keeping it clean and flossing and brushing. In December 2025, the bridge became loose and I could feel it vibrating when I used my waterpik. Went to my new dentist about a month after I noticed the vibrating and he said it had a chip at the gum line and was definitely loose. He said it needed replacing because of the decay underneath from it being loose. He also said if we wait too long, I risk losing the three abutment teeth to decay and a bridge would no longer be an option. They sent a pretreatment thing to insurance and said that my insurance should pay up to my plan limit ($1500 minus about $100 that Cigna already paid for cleaning that year), and I would be responsible for paying the rest ($4600). I waited 2 or 3 more months hoping the insurance would okay the procedure. They never did and the office always told me they were still waiting on Cigna to respond. While waiting it loosened even further to the point I got worried the decay was getting worse and it would destroy the abutment teeth while waiting on Cigna. I went ahead and got the bridge replaced and payed my part ($4600). When the dentist was making an impression before removing the loose bridge, it just came off with the impression material.

That was in April. I called my dental office a couple of times to check on the claim status and they said they were working on it. In late July, the office called me to get the information from the office that originally placed the bridge that had to be replaced. I gave them that info and thanked them for their persistence in getting the claim paid. During this time I had gotten two denials for the work from Cigna.

Yesterday the dentist office sent me a bill for the amount Cigna didn’t pay as a result of them denying the claim ($1400). I called Cigna this morning and they said it was denied because my old loose bridge wasn’t 5 years old. I explained that if I waited until it was five years old (three more years) the abutments would rot and I’d lose those three teeth and the ability to have a bridge because there would be no teeth to anchor it to. I filed an appeal on the grounds that I could lose the abutments due to decay under the loose bridge.

Do you knowledgeable people know if I did the right thing and what my chances are of having it paid? I understand insurance isn’t caring about the patient, just want to make money, but it seems crazy to just expect someone to let their teeth rot because a faulty bridge isn’t old enough. The dentist that placed the original bridge isn’t even at the old office anymore and that office has gone through multiple dentists in less than a year, which is why I stopped going there.

Sorry about the length, I’m just so frustrated. Any insight would be helpful.