I have the IP address of someone who tried to hack into my email?
I received a notification about someone trying to hack into my email on gmail. It said "they have the password, but google stopped the attempt". This person lives in Illinois. I live in Pa. I tracked the IP address and found their internet carrier. However, thats all the info I could get. I called their internet company and they said to have MY company (comcast) contact them about it and so on and so on.
Heres the thing, id rather find out who they are and give them a little call. Is this possible? Are there any hackers out there who wouldn't mind giving me a favor and finding out? LOL
Added (1). and let me just ADD, it said it belongs to an iPhone
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You are attempting a wrong move.
Go through the proper motions to solve this. Contact google and see about pressing charges. Go legal.
If you continue on the path you are on- you might stumble across someone who is capable, and willing, to have you bumped off.
How? I need to find out who it is first don't I? Is google really going to take the time to find out who it was?
You're wasting your time. Report it, make sure your PC is clean of all malware etc, change your password and move on. You won't find much help from anyone as there really is no reason for anyone to waste time pursuing it.
You can't. Their IP address is registered to their ISP. They will have a record of which address had that IP Address at that time but it will take a court order to get them to reveal it.
If this was some cybercriminal. In all likelyhood they were using a Zombie, Proxy, VPN, TOR or some other means to mask their true location. So all you have is a fake IP Address and the line ends their.
It could also be a false positive due to some location service error. Meaning it was a valid login by you but Google thought it was coming from somewhere else and blocked that attempt. I experience this when using a VPN. It can occur other ways. Which I've noted in Logmein logs but not Google.
In any case. Change your password and use a good one. At least 16 digits and nothing personal. I'd strongly suggest using a password manager. I like Lastpass. It's a bit of a learning curve. However, with it you can generate strong and unique passwords for every website. The passwords are stored in an encrypted database which only your Lastpass password can unlock. You can sync this database between devices and even securely share passwords to other Lastpass users keeping the password hidden from them so they can only copy and paste it without seeing it.
Anyways this way you only have to ever know one password ever again. Make it simple, non personal and strong. Using a short phrase is best as it is virtually impossible to break but easy to remember like "aquickbrownfoxjumpedover".
Press charges, don't try to do anything illegal.
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