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PDE5 Inhibitors·12/8/2015, 1:30:35 PM·3 votes·292 views

Long story short, someone stole my ATT cell phone service info and I'm in the hassle of getting my account back. My gmail account was also hijacked. On the safety page of google, it tells you "recent devices accessing this account". They provided me with an IP address of 69.199.122.5 and changed the recovery phone number to 914-281-1316. I'm guessing it might be the same person. Using those silly IP tracker sites, this IP has shown up in California and Georgia, so I'm not sure where it's from. The phone number brings up some place in New York. I think this might be it because the ATT lady said it looked like someone used my ATT account to use my upgrade eligibility at some store in New York. I live very close to New York. I was wondering if someone could do some cool stuff like tracking an IP address and know the location of this person....for reasons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

11 Comments

Gargamel Bot12/8/2015, 1:41:06 PM1 votes

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UB3R 1337 H4X12/8/2015, 2:59:12 PM1 votes

Just a thought, you may get more success on /r/techsupport

AthenasVendetta12/8/2015, 3:05:26 PM1 votes

In short: Yes, it is possible someone has accessed that information. There are many methods of doing the same thing. I would start by changing password and so forth.. then work on network security/account security.

AthenasVendetta12/8/2015, 3:29:30 PM1 votes

Although it would be nice to be able to find precise location of a visitor, it is almost impossible to find exact location of a host given its IP address. However, there are tools available to help identify approximate location of the host. ARIN Whois database provides a mechanism for finding contact and registration information for IP resources registered with ARIN.

You may also use 3rd party websites such as Geobytes or Dnsstuff to lookup the IP address. The whois lookup will reveal name of the ISP who owns that IP address, and the country where it is originated from. If you're lucky, you might also find the city of orgin. You may also use products developed by 3rd party companies like Ip2location. Our sister website, findmyip.org also provides a geographic information of your IP address.

You may also use reverse DNS to find out the hostname of the IP address, which might give you some clues. Many ISPs, Corporations and Academic institutions use location as a qualified hostname, although this is not always true. A couple of things to note here: (1) Reverse DNS translation does not always work. It depends on the correct configuration of the ISP's DNS server. (2) The US domain names such as .com, .net and .org does not always imply that the host is located in the United States.

You may use 'traceroute' command to find clues to the location of the IP address. The names of the routers through which packets flow from your host to the destination host might hint at the geographical path of the final location.

In this case that ip is based in California... and even getting cops involved might not do much even if money was stolen. Sorry.

AthenasVendetta12/8/2015, 3:49:52 PM1 votes

Its not possible for an address, best shot is getting ahold of the ISP for that IP and seeing what they can do. however clients privacy still might overrule you.