What To Do If Your Mac Computer Has Been Hacked

Back up, wipe, reinstall, migrate in only docs, change all passwords on mail and Wi-Fi and all connected devices.

Nov 18, 2018  Many readers of our website are contacting us for help on.allegedly. hacked IP address, and remedies for getting it back.One of the user is telling us his IP address used to be 64.3.x.y in Dallas and now it's 67.72.x.y located in Utah (per ip lookup); and hence his IP address is stolen, and his computer is running very slow and acting abnormal.


Don’t discuss trading or financials outside strictly necessary conversations, and don’t expect add-on security software or hardware products to actually do what it claims, and do expect at least some of those products to potentially open up new avenues for exploitation.


Don’t run a guest network. Or if you do need a guest network, isolate it. WPA2 with a long pre-and complex shared key,


Use a password manager.

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Safari on recent releases can show shared passwords, with a warning triangle in its password store. (Safari uses Keychain for storage, but the caution marker is something that only Safari shows and nor Keychain.) Remove most or all duplicates, when you’re changing passwords everywhere.


Backups, wipe, reinstall from known-good, change all credentials, enable multi-factor authentication where that’s available.


Backups are a key part of breach recovery.

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Notify your financial institutions. Also notify your local police.

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Oct 27, 2018 10:00 AM