Attempted Hacking / Advice, Please!

[tim_nn]

Can anyone offer advice to someone not-too-technical here, please?

I was out for an hour this afternoon and came home to an email from MoneyTec which said "Your account on MoneyTec Traders Community has been locked because someone has tried to log into the account with the wrong password more than 5 times. You will be able to attempt to log in again in another 15 minutes. The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 62.253.128.14"

It's very good of MoneyTec to be able to let me know that someone's so repeatedly been trying to get into my MoneyTec account (even if it's not so easy to understand why!!) ... really I'm pretty impressed. Thank you, guys. But what can I do about it?

Is there any way for me to find out to whom this IP address 62.253.128.14 belongs - and in particular whether that person is another member here?

What (if anything) should I do?

Any advice from anyone, please?

[yasirdxb]

Hi tim,

It seems the abuser is using NTL to connect to the internet. you may report

this case to them

Regards,

Yasir.

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% This is the RIPE Whois query server #1.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% Rights restricted by copyright.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/copyright.html
inetnum: 62.253.128.0 - 62.253.159.255
netname: NTL
descr: NTL Internet
descr: Cambridge site
country: GB
admin-c: NNMC1-RIPE
tech-c: NNMC1-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20010108
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20020815
source: RIPE
route: 62.253.128.0/17
descr: NTL-UK-IP-BLOCK
origin: AS5089
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20040929
source: RIPE
role: NTLI Network Management Centre
address: NTL Internet
address: Crawley Court
address: Winchester
address: Hampshire
address: SO21 2QA
trouble: -------------------------------------------------------
trouble: For abuse notifications please -
trouble: file an online case @ http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport
trouble: +44 1633 710142 (Voicemail Only)
trouble: -------------------------------------------------------
trouble: For peering issues/requests please -
trouble: email : peering@ntli.net
trouble: -------------------------------------------------------
admin-c: MH22007-RIPE
admin-c: NR731-RIPE
admin-c: CM1377-RIPE
tech-c: MH22007-RIPE
tech-c: CM1377-RIPE
admin-c: NR731-RIPE
nic-hdl: NNMC1-RIPE
mnt-by: AS5089-MNT
notify: data.planning@ntl.com
e-mail: data.planning@ntl.com
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20030328
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20030401
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20030603
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20030707
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20040303
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20040312
changed: hostmaster@ntli.net 20040929
changed: data.planning@ntl.com 20050307
source: RIPE

[tim_nn]

Thank you very much indeed, Yasir! I'll certainly do as you suggest. Does what you've kindly printed out here mean that the guilty party was necessarily using a computer in Cambridge, do you think?

[serge]

Hi Tim,

IP Address: 62.253.128.14
Node Name: cmbg-cache-4
Location: Cambridge, UK
Network: NTL Internet

Unless you know a techie (or potential hacker), I suggest you contact your network service and have them check it out for you. They hate hackers as most of us do.

This may be a proxy server, however there is usually enough info provided at the proxy to track it to its true source.

If it is the hackers IP Address, Moneytec has all member info in their database.

Good Luck,
sraklo

[tim_nn]

Thanks very much for your help, guys. I'll do that, too.

Sraklo, I hope you sort out your own situation with MoneyTec!

Tim

[ganja]

... but it can be hacked computer ....
hackers have hacked computers around the world and they use "redirectors" thru another computers, so this IP can be only hacked computer ....
or proxy server ...

[tim_nn]

Yes, I think I see what you mean; but I'm uncomfortable enough about it to want to try every last resort and avenue to get to the bottom of it, whatever it takes. My legal knowledge is a bit rusty but it seems very likely to me that an offence was actually committed here (even if the offender was ultimately unsuccessful in his purpose which may not have been particularly harmful anyway) and I feel like taking that as seriously as I can. Doesn't do to encourage this sort of thing.