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Facebook accessed from unfamiliar location?

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steezyjibber
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This was kinda weird and didn't leave me feeling that good...just tried to access my Facebook and it said it was accessed from Baldwin Park, CA. Never been there in my life, I live in NY. Asked me if this was OK and I said no, so then Facebook made me change my password.

Kinda weird that this happened as I downloaded the Facebook app for my brand new iPhone. Did that possibly have something to do with it? Googled it and nothing came up...

Don't want my facebook being looked at by some random dude in CA...WTF.

Has this happened to anyone else? I mean I've had to verify my location before because I'm on vacation or something. I've had to do that thing where I have to look at pictures of my friends and choose the correct name...but never this.
May 18 2012 12:53PM
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wtf, i'm from maine, not OH, IL, etc. forgot you could hover over the locations and get the IP before i ended the sessions.
May 18 2012 1:13PM
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steezyjibber
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^those are all places your FB has been accessed?
May 18 2012 1:19PM
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*SNO*
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Thats weird.
My friend's brother had his account accessed from Mexico City.

Does anyone think its like the thing that used to happen where it asked for a passport picture?
May 18 2012 1:21PM
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steezyjibber
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nvm, i just found out how to do that on mine.

damn, wtf!
May 18 2012 1:27PM
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Bill.Nye
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Don't quote me on it but when you use the data on your iPhone I'm pretty sure it chooses a different ip every time it connects, so that might be the reason. For example, I've gone onto 4chan on my phone and been told my ip was banned so I put it in airplane mode for a second then it was unbanned.
May 18 2012 1:31PM
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steezyjibber
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word, thing was it says it was accessed at 9:56AM. if that was cali time and it translated to NY time (12:56), then that probably would have been right as i was doing the app. but not sure.
May 18 2012 1:32PM
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Bill.Nye
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I wouldn't worry about it. If it really bothers you you could change your password.
May 18 2012 1:34PM
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introvert
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lol have fun being hacked
May 18 2012 1:44PM
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Cufe.
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sometimes they do that, I know my facebook says I am accessing it all over the west coast of North America but all the times line up with when I was online so I figure its just my IP routing though different servers or something.
May 18 2012 1:51PM
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introvert
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It's pretty easy to get banned from 4chan, actually...


Just post CP............lol
May 18 2012 1:51PM
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steezyjibber
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yeah i guess my iphone location is just messed up
May 18 2012 1:53PM
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theBearJew
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just checked mine and it says I went on in CA. Havnt been to CA since fb started.
May 18 2012 1:56PM
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Relish_man
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I got one from Austria or sumthin' like that.. weird
May 18 2012 2:00PM
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Bill.Nye
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I've never actually been banned (not for more than a few days), but there have been a few times when it thought I was someone else and permabanned me. I don't go on /b/, just /p/. I think one of the mods there hates me for some reason, because the reasons given had nothing to do with breaking any of the rules. Not a single fuck was given though, I haven't been on there in awhile anyway.
May 18 2012 2:02PM
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FreeskierRocco.
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Sometimes it fucks up IP's

I'm currently sitting at school in North Conway, NH and it tells me I am logged into an IP out of South Berwick, ME.... That's almost 2 hours from here.
May 18 2012 2:08PM
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