Oh no! Someone has my IP address! What do I do now?
(self-answered question)
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Top line answer: Disconnect your router for 30 seconds, and reconnect it.
This will reassign you a new IP address.
What can they do with my IP?
Three words: Not much else.
In 2025, most home routers are built in with significant protections against random attacks. If your home router is configured properly, you really don't have anything to worry about cybersecurity-wise.
The main risk is that grabbing an IP address can give your attacker a general sense of your physical location, but only a general sense. It can give them your city and in some cases a city block, but generally speaking, they can't pick out a specific house or location.
What should I do now?
You can request a new IP address by disconnecting your router for 30 seconds and reconnecting it. This will expire your router's lease on your home's IP address and request a new one.
How did they get my IP address?
For most of the people reading on Cyber Info, I would guess they got your IP address because you clicked an IP grabbing link. Your attacker may or may not be able to tell that it's you clicking that IP address; they may only be able to tell that someone with your IP clicked the link, but not which user you are. Alternatively, you could have installed malware of some kind. If this is the case, disconnect your PC from the internet and run a Windows Defender full scan to purge the malware.
Okay thanks ChatGPT 💀
yo'yre mom
But this is like common knowledge man 😭 why’d you write so much for smth that could’ve been answered in like a paragraph at most
so the next time someone says oops someone gots my ip i can just say #Oh no! Someone has my IP address! What do I do now?
oops someone gots my ip
please see #Oh no! Someone has my IP address! What do I do now?
tysm
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Dont you have to
Ask your ISP to change your WAN ip
only if you've paid for a static IP
9 times out of 10 just reconnecting is enough
They reassign it just like that?
yes, that's how DHCP works
i thought that was
strictly for the lan
no your ISP will give you a dhcp wan address too
Welp
means you can't just grab a static ip address for free, and means they can use an existing tested proven protocol, and means they don't have to manage ips locally unless you pay for it
if anyone has your IP and you’ve been triggered to do all this
you must’ve done something bad as well
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ngl i dont know why
random people come in here and make a question completely unrelated to tech
Decide to just ignore the rules
“My discord got hacked”
okay? go call discord support
“Someone doxxed me”
okay? tell them to fuck off
you have never been to the hood have you?
sometimes the only thing you did was look at someone weird
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sometimes the only thing you did wrong was look vulnerable, sometimes the only thing you did wrong was look confident
and that's enough for someone unhinged to direct their lack of hinges onto you
Why disconnecting your router then reconnecting it
You said they can’t do anything with the IP
They already got your approximate geo location
What getting a new IP for?
Also you should’ve stated that port forwarding can put you on risk too
For example Ppls usually don’t change CCTV login credentials
You don’t even have to bruteforce the login lol
In my country if you get a plan of 20 Mbps and higher
They give you a static IP for free
It’s part of the plan
Or just set up a port firewall
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@Skid Patrol
my brother in christ i literally answered my own question what help would i possibly get from you
:brainless:
we don't do "dm me" help here