Unauthorized access to my email account
I think someone has hacked into my
email account on Earthlink, stolen my password
(which I have since changed) and has been reading my old emails.
Is there anyway to trace when and where my email account has been accessed, and to Identify who is doing it?
Thanks for any help provided.
Dave
Unauthorized access to my email account
I do not know if it is someone I know, but that is a possibility.
I will not be able to determine that until I can identify the IP address and location for the person checking my mail.
The reason I am suspicious is that I have opened my email on several occasions to find that messages that I had not previously read were appearing with the "unhighlighted" shade indicating the message had already been read.
On other occasions, I have opened my email and found messages that I had previously read, were now showing that they were "unread".
Unauthorized access to my email account
morganlefay:
I have used other computers as well as public "open wifi" services to check my email on a regular basis.
I am pretty sure the attempts would be web based as no one else has access to my laptop.
Thanks for your input.
David
unauthorized access to my email
Thanks everyone for the great suggestions.
After changing my password I have not identified any new unusual activity on my email account.
Neptune0z:
I am interested in your idea about spreading some "honey".
If I cease using my regular account and then set it up with the old password reset and send some emails to the old address with some interesting "misinformation" of potential interest to a hacker, how do I set up the sniffer and links you mentioned?
nihil:
My guess is whoever is peeking at my email was maybe in a rush on occasion and forgot to mark "unread" on some of the messages looked at that I had not previously opened. As to why a message would show "unread" after I had opened it , I can only assume I am dealing with a sloppy hacker that might be lured into a "honey patch" if I can set one up.
David