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Hi
Am new to these boards but wondering if someone here could help me.my friends hotmail ac has been hacked into and the hacker has forwarded emails to a number of our friends. The hacker has obviously gone through her email box and fwd emails to ppl where they were discussed within the emails.
this has happened to a number of my friends now, this is the 3rd occasion.
is there anyway that the recipient can find out where/who the hacker is? i don’t know much about computers blah blah i’m afraid which is why i’m here to ask.
Can the hacker be traced through an ip address? Or is this just the internet provider? Can we trace it to a single computer and find out who uses it? or anything really? can we find information and forward this to hotmail? Surely hotmail can then trace the user!?!? Or am i being dreamy!?
Hotmail is so unsecure it’s scary….i think i’m gonna stop using it now too after all these incidents.
please advise if you can, is much appreciated! 🙂
I’m not quite sure on how you would go about tracking the hacker but it’s most likely very difficult considering it’s a web based email account and it’s not coming from a single personal computer. I am sure, however, if you do get in touch with someone at Hotmail or MSN that actually cares to help you, they could track which IP address logged onto the account and sent a certain email. That idea is very doubtful though.
Anyway, Hotmail has always been an insecure, spam-filled, and irritating email service for many years. Time to find a new email provider. I recommend Gmail or Yahoo! Mail which are both very great solutions with many features.
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