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Hacked, Yahoo being stupid or just ISP?

  • 01-08-2011 3:03pm
    #1
    ger101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭


    I had a look at my recent activity on Yahoo and saw this:

    weird-yahoo.jpg

    I checked out my IP address and it's from Ireland, yet Yahoo says it's from the Netherlands?!

    Now, what I want to know is this: Have I been hacked, is Yahoo being stupid or is it just my ISP? Has this happened to anyone else?


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  • #2
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    is there anyway to see the ip address?


  • #3
    ger101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭ger101


    Random wrote: »
    is there anyway to see the ip address
    Yeah, when you click on 'Location', it'll have 'IP Address' on the little drop-down menu. When you click on that, 'Netherlands' is changed to the IP address which is the exact same as my IP address.


  • #4
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Are you with UPC? If so they could be mis-detecting a UPC Ireland IP as a UPC Netherlands one.


  • #5
    ger101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭ger101


    BuffyBot wrote: »
    Are you with UPC? If so they could be mis-detecting a UPC Ireland IP as a UPC Netherlands one.
    I am with UPC, yeah. If that's the case, is there anything I can do? Should I give them a call or something?


  • #6
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Contact UPC or Yahoo? I'd imagine its not UPCs fault, but Yahoo's. Whatever database they are using to geolocate your IP address isn't accurate or is out of date.


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  • #7
    ger101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 135 ✭✭ger101


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    Contact UPC or Yahoo? I'd imagine its not UPCs fault, but Yahoo's. Whatever database they are using to geolocate your IP address isn't accurate or is out of date.
    Okay, I'll get in contact with both of them and see what they say.


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