Cellular Usage - iphone and ipad

hello i have an iPhone 4S and iPad Mini 2 (wifi version only), i only bought the iPad on Dec 2013 and i always try to search for public free wifi before attempting to use my iPhone as Personal Hotspot. The reason is that my cellular plan is only limited to 1GB per month cellular data and extra charge will be added if over the limit. They send me SMS about my cellular usage every week and my habit with my mobile and ipad is always less than 200MB per month. I don't play games and i don't download games, i don't update the iOS or download large apps , of course i never watch YouTube with the iPhone or iPad. Everything was perfectly normal but by the end of January i was notified that i had used over 3GB cellular usage on a particular week (third week of January), and of course then I am heavily charged. I have called their CS for several times about where the data was used but they refused to answer and said that it might be your Personal Hotspot being stolen by the others （while my Personal Hotspot always requires password and my password was not "abcdefg" or "1234567", the password was very randomly designed by me, mixed with numbers and English letters... It's not possible to guess out the password.
Note. I don't use iCloud and never used it. No Facebook
Ok, now my question is
could anyone help guessing why's that happening? is it that easy to hack into the wifi and consume my cellular usage when my password is not stupid 1234567 or abcdefg or any birthday dates something.
i now really don't know what's the bad i had done to let 3GB cellular usage be consumed in a week. I turn off Personal Hotspot when i don't use iPad.
Thanks

When your iPad is allowed to access your iPhone cellular data connection over a WIFI personal hotspot there is much less control over which iPad apps are actualy allowed to use the 3G cellular.
When i look at the WIFI traffic from an iPad (WireShark), there is all sorts of communication active on the background Such as the iCloud storage service backing up pictures / mail when WIFI is active or push notofications.
On my iPad mini there is very data little on it, a bit of mail and a few pictiures. Nonetheless it managed to occupy a whopping 2.4Gb on the 5Gb iCloud storage capacity. When all this data moving happened, i can't tell exactly since there is no backup activity notification on a WIFI connection. What i do know iCloud backup not active when my iPad Mini cellular has a direct cellular connection. (not over a WIFI hotspot)
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