How do I know if my account has been hacked
I received an email that someone tried to log in my account July 9 from VA using a IPHONE XR ? I’m concerned please help
iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 14
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If you have two-factor authentication enabled (and you really want that enabled), you’d receive a verification code on a trusted device if anything actually happened; if your password has been compromised. If there was no verification code, either the login attempt failed, or it was a scam login message. Both are common.
As for the location The geolocation and device identification of an IP address is also hit or miss, and increasingly miss. Why? Precise IP address locations are hazardous to users—abusive exes, crooks, etc.—and vendors including Apple are masking device identities to improve user privacy; to make tracking more difficult. This means a login that you performed might show up unexpectedly in a login-report message. Pragmatically, an IP address geolocation is “correct” if it’s located in the same country.
Some related links to more info:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204759
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201679
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