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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 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Do you have an open guest network turned on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oddly enough, I had this same thing happen earlier tonight. I’m currently in the middle of moving and have an old router setup as a holdover. I didn’t set up any encryption in the meantime, as I didn’t feel it was warranted because of how momentary it would run.

All the same, I had a device named “Bethany-s-s22” on my past connections list. A quick Google search showed that it was just a Galaxy S22; comparatively, it looks like the device that connected to yours was a Galaxy S20, if it follows the same default naming convention. That said, I definitely put up a quick password to prevent that happening again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re under investigation by Colleen Rooney.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah is OP Rebekah Vardy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Colleen Hoover knows you're not reading her books

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe infidelity and some woman is coming over to mess with your husband. Maybe outside your house

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess this did something like this from there root’d phone.

https://www.wikihow.com/Hack-Wi-Fi-Using-Android

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It takes a special kind of stupid to leave WPS active, but then you don't need to attempt a crack anyway, and they most probably have uPnP active too!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did this device connect again after you changed your wifi password?

What level of security are you using.. WEP or WPA or WPA2 or WPA3 ?

Do you have a guest network turned on?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, wpa2 and no

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your Wi-Fi password

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago