Stranger connected to home wifi - eviltoast

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.

  • yieldmerge@alien.topB
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    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.