My iPhone 6 was hacked

Last week I started receiving a lot >50 irate texts from a 503 area code on my iPhone 6. I assumed it was spam and blocked the numbers. i called mt provider who wasn't very helpful and told me I could change my number. Almost exactly one week later the same thing happened but from 2 different area codes. I even had people trying to FaceTime me. Long story short, it turned out that my phone had been sending out hundreds of texts in a 3 hour window to those area codes. I have no record of them on my phone. But they show up on my Verizon log as have being sent. I deleted all none crucial apps and restored my phone. I will see if this helps. Any other thoughts or advice?

Hi deggie,
I agree, the first thing I thought of was that my verizon account was the issue. When I asked about that possibility with their senior tech support they said that the messages were originating from the phone. They no longer have a web based text service (as compared with other groups like Sprint). The only apps I have uploaded were from the App store - I didn't know you could even get apps for the iphone from other sources. Do you think things are OK now that I did the reset and changed every password and security question in both my Apple and Verizon accounts?
Thanks again for your thoughts. It has been a pretty miserable experience.

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