Recently my contact card was changed to make my name into a vulgar statement.

Recently my contact card was changed to make my name into a vulgar statement. I only noticed this when I went to go send an email, and the incorrect name popped up. There is a SLIM chance someone hacked into my contacts since everything is password protected, but I guess I need to know if there is any way that a virus/hacker went into my contacts to mess with me. That seems unlikely as it was just my contact that was changed, but I still need to know. I recently updated my computer software to mountain lion, and I also updated software on my iphone. I was wondering if any of that might have made that change?

Your device was not hacked as it is not possible unless the device is jailbroken.
More likely someone has gained access to your iCloud account (assuming that is how contacts are synced to your device) and changed the information to mess with you. This could also have been done with physcial access to the device or even access to the computer if it is set to save passwords.

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