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Sounds like it was the iOS bluetooth exploit being spammed in a public place. There are a few variations, one that’s a little annoying, and one that will lock up your phone until a hard reset - your experience sounds like the latter.
This exploit is broadcast to all devices in the area so, good news is that, no one was specifically targeting you. The -only- way to avoid this is to turn off Bluetooth via Settings.
This is happening at multiple shopping centres in Australia as well, confirmed by the Apple Store guys as well
This literally just happened to me (on a train in Singapore). Got the notification about needing additional information to connect to some Bluetooth device. Then my airpods cut out. Turned Bluetooth off and tried to turn Bluetooth on again but it refused to turn back on. Restarted my phone, phone crashed after a couple of minutes or so, restarted again and now seems to work ok...
Hoping is not anything malicious...
Flipper Fucker.
Flipper zero and Bluetooth bug. Probably next update fix this bug