So I recently started to use TotalVPN on my PC and it was working fine until something fishy happend. So I was playing on my PS4 and suddenly I was logged out and it said that I was logged in on another PS4. I immediately went and changed my password on my account and also changed my password and set up mobile authentication on my email account. About 10 minutes later I received an email from Yahoo saying that my account was attempted to be logged into from the Netherlands. Funny thing is the TotalVPN server I had been connected to was in the Netherlands. Is it possible I was hacked while using the VPN?
Most likely this is just a delayed reaction from the PS4 network security protocols related to you logging in into your account from a “strange new location” (NL), so it assumes the account is compromised.
Microsoft does this on outlook.com too. If you login from a location far away from the last location you logged in, IMAP will be locked for your account and you have to unlock it via the webpage.
I also noticed after switching from my default VPN server to another that steam required to log in again.
This is a normal and even good behaviour by the services to ensure that you will notice when your account gets hacked and maybe have enough time to take counter measures, like changing your password.
To me this is strange. Because the VPN is on your PC ONLY and your PS4 still use your actual IP address. Unless you use the VPN configuration on your router which forward all the connections from your house to the VPN server.
I use Trillian to chat with a friend who has Yahoo Messenger. Yahoo always kicks me off when I log onto Trillian, then tells me that certain functions have been disabled for my protection and that I need to log in from a web browser or phone. I ignore it. I have no idea what has been “disabled” because the chat still works. Several minutes later I’ll get an email telling me that someone has tried to access my account from a machine in Germany. . .or Switzerland. . .or the Netherlands, or wherever I’m connected via VPN. Your changing your passwords and their email alerting you to possible intrusion just happened to cross paths. The emails are always delayed a bit, I’ve found.
How do you explain the email compromise then. Mind you I wasn’t connected when I received the email and I also wasn’t using the VPN while playing PS4.
I know because I used it on PC only.
they noticed someone from the neitherland was trying to change your email password. in fact, it was you but you were using an IP from the neitherland. From their point of view, they expect you to be at home, not in neitherland, so they think it must be a hacker in neitherland trying to access your things.
I didn’t change my username/pass while using the VPN