My iphone 4s has suddenly started to become exceptionally hot and is no longer charging from a plug or computer, help!!!

Please help!!! My iphone 4s worked perfectly until 2 hours ago I had it charging off of my car lighter (as I do every day on my way home from work). This evening it got so hot the temperature guauge stopped it from working and I lost 50% battery life in 5 mins. Since then I have been unable to use the phone or to charge it, have tried connecting to my laptop, to a wall connector and through my recharging unit. Everything was fine until that point. Please help everything is on my phone especially my work contacts. I have put all updates on without any issues. The phone was new April 2013.

Sounds like a bad battery.  You'll need to bring the phone into Apple for evaluation.
I'm sure you've been using your phone as designed and properly backing up your data, so you should have minimal, if any data loss should the phone need to be replaced.

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