wow this was scary

#1 - Nov. 7, 2012, 11:08 a.m.

Hello, i was wondering if anyone could give me any insight to this,

i tried logging in repeatedly and it said i was logging in from an unknown I.P. adress
so i thought what everone else would “omg ive been hacked”.

and in my email it said somone tried to log into my account from california, so i thought for sure i had been hacked.

so i started the process of the “ive been hacked process” and to my amazement 2 more emails showed up as i tried logging in, i thought this couldnt be as i live in kentucky.

Well i went ahead and gave this new I.P. access and i was able to log in and seen my account had been untouched.

If any smart tech guys can explian this to me or tell me if i need to change my password i would be grateful.

Gaile Gray

#7 - Nov. 7, 2012, 2:32 p.m.

Leira.9701:
Most ölikely it was you who tried to log in all the time. Maybe your ISP just showed the wrong location. AS far as its not a different country at all i wouldnt be concerned.

Sorry, but this is bad advice. A lot of account thieves use proxies that make their access appear to come from, say, California or Kentucky or Quebec or Paris, when in fact they’re nowhere close to those locations.

If you see any access attempt coming from a reasonable distance, I’d block it.