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- 8 Feb 2010
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- Sheffield, GB
Hey, the long and short of it is that my girlfriend has been hacked.
She was sent an email with sensitive information (about her) by the culprit from a gmail account. I checked the details of the email and at first look it seems as though it was sent from a residential address in Canada.
Now, some1 who has hacked god knows what of my girlfriends. Would not be stupid enough to send it from their actual IP would they? Surely they must have used an IP cloaking program that re-routes it?
So my question is, how do I trace back beyond this IP. I'm not sure how to get the mac address of the individual in order to carry on checking where they are sending data from.
(If they are in another country I can let this go, if they are local then the police need to get involved.)
She was sent an email with sensitive information (about her) by the culprit from a gmail account. I checked the details of the email and at first look it seems as though it was sent from a residential address in Canada.
Now, some1 who has hacked god knows what of my girlfriends. Would not be stupid enough to send it from their actual IP would they? Surely they must have used an IP cloaking program that re-routes it?
So my question is, how do I trace back beyond this IP. I'm not sure how to get the mac address of the individual in order to carry on checking where they are sending data from.
(If they are in another country I can let this go, if they are local then the police need to get involved.)
This battle has cheered me up regardless of the situation. Still the question remains. I believe this to be a HTTP proxy, so does any1 know if the police would have methods to trace this guy? Like I say, it's quite unnerving thinking this guy could be just down the road watching my girlfriends every move. But if he is indeed from canada or russia or australia then it's ok, she is due to move anyway and the accounts have been seized by the police. I would start up new accounts under false names for her and she would be able to use temp emails to set them up and keep her real email separate from this.