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rose_lumenora
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

How can I check IP address of file access?

Hi all -    This weekend, I received an email that my files had been moved and/or added to my dropbox account.  How can I tell how they were moved, if they were downloaded, etc?    Someone has ha...
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stefimanafi
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

My account was hacked on 7th & 8th of September, I discovered that on that date the person that had access restored deleted files and after 10 minutes was deleted again.

In my personal account\security web browser history is deleted.

How can I be informed the IP address of the browser connected at those dates?

 

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Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
4 years ago
stefimanafi wrote:

In my personal account\security web browser history is deleted.

How can I be informed the IP address of the browser connected at those dates?

If the session is no longer shown on your Security page, then there's no way to know the IP address.

  • LauraKlin's avatar
    LauraKlin
    Explorer | Level 4
    4 years ago

    If I understand correctly, you need a single output, where the open file will correspond to the address of the PC, while in the proposed options, such mapping is only for the user name.

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