Hacked email!

Ste N

Hi guys,

Recently my hotmail account was hacked (very easy to do) and emails were forwarded on to the hackers account. I know who this person is but would like to prove it, is there any way-ip addresses etc???

Thanks!

More details: Have UPC broadband, Have AVG protection with firewall. However email account was accessed by choosing 'forgot password' then guessing the security question correctly! The person did it from their home,

Thanks

LoLth

if the mails were forwarded, how do you know where they were forwarded to?

was it a case of "they sent the contents of my inbox to another account" in which case you have the sent items with the address on them as proof, or was it that a forwarding rule was set up.. in which case you have the address in the rule.

As for proof, is there a log of where your account was accessed from? Have you contacted hotmail tech support?

If you know the person and you know that your account was hacked, (how do you know where they did it from?) then report it to the gardai. Its a breach of privacy and its hacking, plain and simple (gaining access to a private system without the authorisation or consent of the owner).

Unless they actually accessed your own hoem PC remotely there's not much you can do except talk to hotmail support as they never went anywhere near your router/firewall.

Ste N

LoLth wrote: »

if the mails were forwarded, how do you know where they were forwarded to?

was it a case of "they sent the contents of my inbox to another account" in which case you have the sent items with the address on them as proof, or was it that a forwarding rule was set up.. in which case you have the address in the rule.

As for proof, is there a log of where your account was accessed from? Have you contacted hotmail tech support?

If you know the person and you know that your account was hacked, (how do you know where they did it from?) then report it to the gardai. Its a breach of privacy and its hacking, plain and simple (gaining access to a private system without the authorisation or consent of the owner).

Unless they actually accessed your own hoem PC remotely there's not much you can do except talk to hotmail support as they never went anywhere near your router/firewall.

The person forwarded mail -containing info about them -to their own address, then made up that my account sent it randomly, this an email from 2 years ago!
I have contacted hotmail who just really advised to change passwords etc.
Have also talked to the gardai, they said to get proof if we could and that anything further could be put down as harassment.

Thanks

LoLth

well, then hotmail should have logs of what IP address accessed the account on what dates,

your sent items should contain a record of when the mail was sent and when, so there's your timeframe.

get the IP from hotmail and pass it alogn to the gardai (you could do an iplookup and see if the IP is in the range belonging to your friend's ISP - would be handy if it was different from your own ISP).

As a civilian you're not likely to get anything more out of either hotmail or any ISP. IP addresses are considered private information and require a court order to get an ISP to reveal who had that IP on that date (assuming they can actually do so, I'm not 100% sure on the retention policy for IP lease logs in ISPs).

If you are requesting IP access logs from Hotmail (and you should be able to seeign as its access to your own account that you are looking up) then pad the date/time a little bit as if you are too narrow in your request you might miss the actual login because you havent allowed for time the user took to read and search the mail before sending.

endacl

Best of luck. I've spent over two years, on and off, trying to convince nothingworksproperly@hotmail.com to close my account with no success. People are still getting spam from the address. I'd just cut my losses and walk away.

Jogathon

That is psycho awful!

Ste N

LoLth wrote: »

well, then hotmail should have logs of what IP address accessed the account on what dates,

your sent items should contain a record of when the mail was sent and when, so there's your timeframe.

get the IP from hotmail and pass it alogn to the gardai (you could do an iplookup and see if the IP is in the range belonging to your friend's ISP - would be handy if it was different from your own ISP).

As a civilian you're not likely to get anything more out of either hotmail or any ISP. IP addresses are considered private information and require a court order to get an ISP to reveal who had that IP on that date (assuming they can actually do so, I'm not 100% sure on the retention policy for IP lease logs in ISPs).

If you are requesting IP access logs from Hotmail (and you should be able to seeign as its access to your own account that you are looking up) then pad the date/time a little bit as if you are too narrow in your request you might miss the actual login because you havent allowed for time the user took to read and search the mail before sending.

Think I'll go to hotmail again and try that, thanks for taking the time, appreciate it.

infodox

Get the FULL HEADERS of the emails sent (if they are in your outbox). IIRC there is a field in Hotmail emails in the mail headers (cannot recall what it is called) that has their IP address in it...