I suspect my mac been hacked- Need advice

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Hi, I really need someone's help. I have some suspicious that my mac is remotely controlled. My ex helped me to update this mac, he is an IT specialist on macs and I really trusted him while he did it. it's been 4 months since then and we broke up. Now I don't know if it's true or not, but there have been some weird changes and stuff I just can't explain (Hopefully it's just in my head).
For example, in the last logs on the terminal, I see my user name twice, one with "console" ending, and one with "ttys000" ending, they both logged in and in different times on the day.
I tried to learn about it myself and look for instructions online, but I really can't manage with all this information. I also found some code that I don't know if it's software necessary or something that helps someone to hack my computer.
like the code here:
def get_ipython_hidden_vars_dict(self):
try:
if hasattr(self.interpreter, 'ipython') and hasattr(self.interpreter.ipython, 'user_ns_hidden'):
user_ns_hidden = self.interpreter.ipython.user_ns_hidden
if isinstance(user_ns_hidden, dict):
# Since IPython 2 dict `user_ns_hidden` contains hidden variables and values
user_hidden_dict = user_ns_hidden.copy()
else:
# In IPython 1.x `user_ns_hidden` used to be a set with names of hidden variables
user_hidden_dict = dict([(key, val) for key, val in dict_iter_items(self.interpreter.ipython.user_ns)
if key in user_ns_hidden])

There is so much weird shit that i really don't know in what to suspect and even if I need to. Can you please help me understand it and let me know if there is something I need to worry about (from what I told you here) ?
Thank you so much!
 

Cory Cooper

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Hello and welcome.
  • Which model Mac?
  • Which version of OS X/macOS?
  • What kinds of things are happening that led you to look at the logs?
  • Which log contains the code you posted?
  • What online instructions did you review - can you add a link here?
Python is a programming language, and if he is in IT and ever used your computer, he may have just been curious of how it works on a Mac. I highly doubt that he would install anything when setting up your Mac when your relationship was going well, but that is of course speculation.

C
 

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