compromised? stolen mac timemachine disk - what does "localdomain" mean in 'connected devices' list?

Mark 

"In that case your account has possibly been compromised and set up as a new user (from the stolen drives?). "

yes, that was my fear.

i feel that the .localdomain part of "ChristopersMBP4.localdomain" MIGHT be a clue to the device location.

Still can't find out what that means.

anyhoo I now have DFA and new passwords but its not a good sign for the data in my local dropbox folder (in the time machine backups) 

thanks N

[split from another topic and moved here]

Rich Massive thanks for the help. This upgrade option is all about me connecting to Dropbox email support (following a data breach) which I can't do unless I am a paid subscriber, do you know if there's maybe any way to have a one off paid support event perhaps? 

As you're a superuser maybe you know the answer to this or know how to find out 

PLEASE ;~}

In Dropbox security my connected macs are listed as 'xxxx.local' (see screenshot)

After the breach, a mac appeared with the name "ChrstohersMBP4.localdomain.

I'm trying to find out what ".localdomain" means as against ".local" in that context and google is just confusing me. 

basically - where was that extra Mac connecting from? - what qualifies as .localdomain? 

I know local means my home network

thanks so much

Jay thanks so much for responding, I really appreciate it

- I did remove the unknown machine as soon as I saw it, but that was sometime after the theft

- and of course I've changed all my important passwords. and cancelled credit cards.

Sadly, the fact that unknown machine was connected to Dropbox (and I never had a computer with that name) suggests the thieves did clone my Mac, which is awfully unfortunate. I'd never looked at the security pane/connections before but that computer names definitely not mine

Could it POSSIBLY be a name from a used Mac Mini I have here, it appears as Neils-mini.local now and I'd not changed its name - I called it that from day 1?

I've had a problem with Apple ID too - I saw an unknown machine in "find my mac" - I'm pretty scared!

Now I have to deal with it 

As you are Dropbox staff, might I please ask whether, should I need it, there's possibility of paid support events for basic Dropbox customers?

I pretty much retired, so every subscription is hard to pay for me. 

OR, if not,  might you please confirm that if I did upgrade to Pro for a month to get support I could revert to basic and keep the 6.5 GB I earned by referring friends?

thanks lots for the help

Jay thanks so much, I understand about paid support and appreciate the advice that I'd retain my quota -  I guess it's perhaps not going to help me any further on this event to contact support, sadly.

Unless they could look at the connected device history perhaps? Is that feasible?

Unfortunately, I panicked and removed the device before I read up the support info and realised I should have clicked on the "i" 

thanks for helping Jay, I really appreciate it

have a good week

Neil

Jay thanks very much

neil