In the exciting age of digital technology, unfortunately, Internet users have become more vulnerable to phishing and hacking. Some of us have even experienced our email accounts being hacked. The obvious signs of this include emails appearing as though they have been read when you haven't read them yet or being locked out of your email account. If you think that your email account has been hacked, take sufficient precautions, such as changing your password. Next, you can attempt to find out who has been using your email account via their Internet protocol, or IP, address.
Step 1
Determine if someone has hacked into your email account. Check whether spam emails have been sent or forwarded via your email account, if any messages have been deleted or if unread emails have been read.
Step 2
Change your password -- preferably to a stronger password that is not a real word -- as soon as you suspect that your account has been hacked.
Step 3
Contact/call the company that provides your Internet access. The company's tech support will be able to help you track down the IP address using your email. If your email has in fact been hacked, you can also request that your Internet provider launch an investigation.
Step 4
Check the IP addresses of the activity on your email account on your own. If you use Google's Gmail, you can do this in one click. Open your Gmail account and go the bottom-right corner of the inbox. Under "Last account activity," click "Details." Here, a list of the most recent IP addresses that have accessed your email will show up.
Warning
Even if you are able to locate the IP address that is gaining unauthorized access to your email account on your own, professional hackers will cover their tracks by hiding behind a proxy server. Also, an IP address does not give you the physical address of the email hacker; it only tells you the location of the ISP providing the connection to the hacker. Your Internet provider may be able to learn more during an official investigation.
Step 1
Determine if someone has hacked into your email account. Check whether spam emails have been sent or forwarded via your email account, if any messages have been deleted or if unread emails have been read.
Step 2
Change your password -- preferably to a stronger password that is not a real word -- as soon as you suspect that your account has been hacked.
Step 3
Contact/call the company that provides your Internet access. The company's tech support will be able to help you track down the IP address using your email. If your email has in fact been hacked, you can also request that your Internet provider launch an investigation.
Step 4
Check the IP addresses of the activity on your email account on your own. If you use Google's Gmail, you can do this in one click. Open your Gmail account and go the bottom-right corner of the inbox. Under "Last account activity," click "Details." Here, a list of the most recent IP addresses that have accessed your email will show up.
Warning
Even if you are able to locate the IP address that is gaining unauthorized access to your email account on your own, professional hackers will cover their tracks by hiding behind a proxy server. Also, an IP address does not give you the physical address of the email hacker; it only tells you the location of the ISP providing the connection to the hacker. Your Internet provider may be able to learn more during an official investigation.
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