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Stranger connected to home wifi (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A device called Colleens s20 just connected to my wifi at midnight. How could a stranger access my wifi and how can I figure out who they are? Ip address and Mac address turn up nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Can you see if the device actually got an IP address?

Depending on how your device and it's reporting works it's possible that it's just reporting that someone tried to connect to your wifi network (didn't know the password so didn't get authorized).

If you don't want people to be able to even see/connect to your wifi - hide your SSID (stop publishing it). I do this on my IoT and Camera networks. They don't publish their names until I need to add a device, then I turn on broadcasting, add the device, after it's added I can turn off the publish again.