Identifying IP addresses of hackers
by James Kiersten from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5APDH)
Okay, majorly freaked out here. I was talking to someone on Facebook last year for quite awhile, odd fellow, very paranoid.....but only through text (we never spoke over the phone, or met).
They were on the political forums, and we chatted. He sent me his resume(??) saying he was in a doctorate program studying AI and doing "research".
He claimed to be from Texas, but definitely spoke Russian. He got progressively more paranoid and even unfriendly, and finally dropped off/became completely unresponsive.
That's when I found out MONTHS LATER he had hacked into my Facebook account, and was still logged in, reading my messages to other people. I know this with 100% certainty it was the same person. What's more, he seemed to have some kind of alert set up (I guess to his mobile phone). Something happened that proved without a doubt he instantaneously knew what I Facebook messaged to someone else. That may explain why he remained logged in, instead of just hacking the password.
I haven't logged in my Facebook account since, I abandoned it in August. I'm just too freaked out to use it. But now.... I discovered this person has apparently hacked my email account now also, and has been sitting in there about two weeks, reading my email correspondence. At least, someone did....I'm fairly certain its him- same location, Bolingbrook, IL.
My question is- and I'm not a networking expert- I have 3 IP addresses who have hacked my Facebook and email, and all 3 of them have the first 3 numbers identical. (XX.XX.XX.XX)
Why would the 4th number vary, and is there any way to confirm who this is if you have all 4 parts of the IP address?
How did he even know my email address?
This person was SO bizarre. Anyway I looked up all 3 IP addresses on AbuseIDP, they have already been reported many times, over several years. Whoever this is a big time hacker and stealing stuff, apparently.
They were on the political forums, and we chatted. He sent me his resume(??) saying he was in a doctorate program studying AI and doing "research".
He claimed to be from Texas, but definitely spoke Russian. He got progressively more paranoid and even unfriendly, and finally dropped off/became completely unresponsive.
That's when I found out MONTHS LATER he had hacked into my Facebook account, and was still logged in, reading my messages to other people. I know this with 100% certainty it was the same person. What's more, he seemed to have some kind of alert set up (I guess to his mobile phone). Something happened that proved without a doubt he instantaneously knew what I Facebook messaged to someone else. That may explain why he remained logged in, instead of just hacking the password.
I haven't logged in my Facebook account since, I abandoned it in August. I'm just too freaked out to use it. But now.... I discovered this person has apparently hacked my email account now also, and has been sitting in there about two weeks, reading my email correspondence. At least, someone did....I'm fairly certain its him- same location, Bolingbrook, IL.
My question is- and I'm not a networking expert- I have 3 IP addresses who have hacked my Facebook and email, and all 3 of them have the first 3 numbers identical. (XX.XX.XX.XX)
Why would the 4th number vary, and is there any way to confirm who this is if you have all 4 parts of the IP address?
How did he even know my email address?
This person was SO bizarre. Anyway I looked up all 3 IP addresses on AbuseIDP, they have already been reported many times, over several years. Whoever this is a big time hacker and stealing stuff, apparently.