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Re: hacked email account


From: Kenton Smith <listsks () yahoo ca>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 12:28:17 -0400 (EDT)

I would say if there is any possibility this might end
in legal action against the suspect, you should get
law enforcement involved right away. Unless you have a
well documented and legal chain of evidence collected
through accepted pratices you won't get anywhere in
court. You may also find you have difficulty getting
any of the records you need without the help of law
enforcement.

Kenton

--- helen wilkinson-makey
<helen () wilkinson-makey co uk> wrote:

My personal email provider records the IP address of
every success and
failed log in.

An IP address tried to access my account on Thurs
27th April at 10.29am.
A quick check on www.ripe.net aroused my suspicions
immediately when I
found out the ISP. Further checks on google revealed
the IP address
seems to belong to a large organisation that knows
me.

More extensive google searches revealed this IP
address was regularly
and consistently left on a forum where this person
was talking about a
major IT project that I am an extremely well known
opponent too.

This person also left another IP address on the
forum which again is
linked to another major organisation that knows me.

Is there anyway I can track when this IP was doing
on a given day ( web
page visited etc) and preferably within a time
scale???

I know I will need to get radius records but I want
to investigate this
as far as possible myself. From what I have
uncovered so far this
attempted log in is highly suspicious. I have
discussed this in detail
with my email provider they too are of the same
opinion.

I am based in the UK.

Ellie



  


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