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

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neilBar wrote:

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

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It's not. The .local and .localdomain just refer to a local computer network. They have nothing to do with location.

You won't be able to determine the exact location of that device with the information available to you through Dropbox (even if you opened a support case). The closest you'll get is the location that you see listed in your screenshot, which is based only on the geolocation of the IP address, and that location would just be the address listed on the IP registration, which would be the data center or HQ of the ISP that owns the IP address. For instance, the location that Dropbox has listed for the device I'm typing this on is a city more than 45 minutes away.

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

Did you check the IP address before you removed the device from your account? It's possible that it could be from a machine you owned, as you mentioned.

Currently, there are no options for paid support for Basic users. If you upgrade to a paid plan, and then downgrade later, you'll keep the referral quota on your account.

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

As the device is no longer connected, it wouldn't be possible to locate any information on the device, unfortunately.

Jay thanks very much

neil