Did I get that unlucky and get assigned a bad IP?
Its mobile data btw.
And I don’t wanna point fingers and blame Proton, but like… c’mon,
First of all, its a real IP address,
Second, even if it were a VPN, so what, your company literally runs a VPN lol, kinda ironic.
And its also a paid account, and I rarely (almost never) send outgoing emails.
But again, this is just a small annoyance, I generated a new password in Keepass and its seems fixed.
where does it say anything about your ip?
Well it doesn’t say that, just an inference I made, since I haven’t done anything suspicious with email, so IP is the only logical conclusion since that changes like every time data gets turned off and back on (like daily reboots).
And some CGNAT is often mentioned, so maybe there’s a spammer on the same Shared CGNAT IP? Idk, kinda very unlucky, and probably uncommon since its the first time I got this.
It’s more likely the result of automated login attempts because your email is on a leaked list and they forced a password reset on you to protect your account.
Damn if that’s the case, my paranoia is gonna go overdrive.
Btw, has anyone here actually got hacked? I feel like the media always overexaggerates “hacking” and its mostly people just using weak passwords (user error), not really hacking.
weak passwords (user error) not really hacking
If you need to cross a chasm, and someone rolls a boulder in that lets you get across, are you going to go into all the ways that it wasn’t really a bridge?
Hacking is about making stuff do things outside is intended purpose. There are no prescriptions on how; hacking doesn’t gatekeep. If it works, it’s a hack. Convincing sometime to open the door for you is social engineering, for example.
So, if someone uses/reuses weak passwords, it’s fair to say that’s an easy hack, but it’s still a hack.
- Use mullvad.
- probably ur email got pwned –> use mullvad. That way the only reason your acc will ever be logged into is your own incompetence to secure a 16 char sequence.
