Someone hacked my mail...

CaptainForest · Feb 13, 2006, 02:32 PM

Change your secret question and password now.

And for further information, don’t make it so obvious. For example, my secret question might say, “What is your mother’s madden name?”. Now do I answer correctly (eg, Smith…NO), instead I say Williams…which isn’t right, but this provides me with an extra layer of security. The trick is to remember the answer.

Is it possible for you to find out the IP address of the person? YES. But that might not do you any good. They could have used an internet caf

Mary_fr · Feb 13, 2006, 02:42 PM

The first thing I did was changing my secret question and password. I cannot forget this because they stole very significant information. Could you please help me with the IP address and the whole process that I must follow?. I think I should try.

CaptainForest · Feb 13, 2006, 03:11 PM

Never store significant information in a hotmail account…

But I digress…

You need to contact the police, since you will need a court order for Hotmail to turn that information over. Well, you can ask them nicely, but odds are they will say no, or better yet, just ignore the request.

If this is a serious matter, the police will get a warrant make Hotmail tell them the IP address used. Then they go to the IP provider and eventually they will track down this perp.

nwsflash · Feb 13, 2006, 03:28 PM

Hi there is an email address you can use

msnprivacy@msn.com

You will need to send :

Quote:

To report a security or privacy issue, send an e-mail message to msnprivacy@msn.com, and include the following information:

Your first name
Your last name
Your full sign-in name (e-mail address)
The e-mail address to which you want MSN to send the response
A complete description of the issue

Its worth giving them a try see if they can help

The info you send needs to match 100% with what you gave when you signed up for your account, our they may just blank you as a hacker.

ScottGem · Feb 14, 2006, 07:02 AM

I agree with Captain Forest. If you want to pursue this you will need to file a police report, reporting the theft of the info. They will then (possibly) help you see if you can obtain the actual identity of the thief. The likelihood of them sucessfully doing so is pretty small however.

fredg · Feb 14, 2006, 07:08 AM

Hi,
As others have stated, you probably won't get what you are looking for.
At one time, years ago, I did the same thing; that is, store stuff online that was important to me. Since then, I have learned the "hard way" not to do that.
I know it's too late to think about that now, for this particular issue, but your own computer, and maybe burning the info to a CD-R or DVD is one of the best ways to maintain security.
I do wish you the best; and good luck.

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