Does an IP address have to match exactly to link it to someone who has hacked your email....?

what if all but the last for numbers match....


does that mean its them but through a different comp on that network or not nessesarily...


I KNOW who did it but need proof to press charges...


thank you....


P.S. ive used read notify to gain the ip of who it is...... now im curious if i have all the proof i need or do i need more???

Does an IP address have to match exactly to link it to someone who has hacked your email....?
Actually, with NAT routing and other setups that are available, even the same class C doesn't cut it any more. (For example, I am writing this from a hotel right now; probably everyone in the hotel shows up as having the same IP address as I am.)





To prove that the email came from a particular system, you would have to contact the administrators of that IP network for more details. For instance, if we pretend that the IP was 1.2.3.4, then you could look up (by using arin.net for a starting point for North American IP ranges, etc) and tracking down just what provider assigned that address. In my example, perhaps you could narrow it down to say that the hotel I'm in has a DSL line through Windstream Communications. You would have to get Windstream (or BellSouth or RoadRunner or whoever it really is) to look at their usage logs to determine who had been assigned that address at that time. If they pin pointed the hotel, then the hotel would have to be able to figure out it was me; if it is a home user, you could probably figure out which account was logged in, but not necessarily who was sitting at the computer in that house.





Basically, it's a long and annoying process of narrowing it down. You will probably need to get a subpoena for the provider before they release any information about the IP address as well. Unless the police are willing to pursue the issue for some reason, I doubt you will ever "know" who sent you that email to a high degree of accuracy.





Perhaps a better question is, what exactly makes you think your email was hacked, and how? Perhaps you can get the police involved with an interesting enough answer to that question.
Reply:I if all but the last few match, then they are on the same "class c" subnet. Meaning that they are on the same network, maybe not a different computer because a dynamic IP address is usually assigned when you connect. There is really no way to prove they did it without seeing IP assignment logs, etc.

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