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Today I was at Lunch with a friend. We were sitting outside enjoying the awesome weather in IL having bread sticks while we talked. We were together from 3-5:30pm (CST). I put my Blackberry on the table.
I had my friend listen to 3 songs that were on my memory card at the very beginning of our lunch. I got a EMail from my Boss at 4:39pm and read it. Those are the only two times I touched my Blackberry.
Then when we were just about to leave, like 5:15pm, I opened up Facebook app to post that I had a great lunch and was going to go for a 4mi. walk now. For some reason Facebook wouldn't update the news feed or post my status update, it failed to post it.
So I open my BB Browser and go to the mobile Facebook site and put in my login info and it tells me somebody from a location it doesn't recognize tried logging into my account and that I need to login from a computer to review my activity history. hmmm, ok? Same thing happened when I tried the mobile touch website of Facebook, same messages.
I opened up BOLT(v2) browser thinking maybe it would be different and let me continue. Well I logged in and it told me the same thing. hmmmm, fine!
I got home a hour later and logged on. I entered my information. It then told me "There was a attempt to access your account from a location we don't recognize you normally logging in from.". ok, I knew that already.
I hit next and go through the Captcha code and then it tells me the IP that attempted to access my account is 206.53.157.105. It was from a Blackberry Device it said attempting to login through Facebook Mobile Site from a location in Canada at 4:35pm(CST). I'm almost positive I wasn't using my Blackberry then and even if I was I'm 110% sure I wasn't trying to access Facebook then.
I traced the IP and it came back to Research In Motion on 3 different websites and Visual Trace IP program.
My question is why would Research In Motion or somebody there even maybe be trying to log into my Facebook account? It locked my account completely out until I got home and went through the process.
Has anybody else every had this happen? Should I contact RIM about this? Is it like a breach of my privacy?
Thanks For Your Time,
-Russell
Blackberry Storm 2 on VZW running .320(stock)Last edited by mchruss03; 04-08-10 at 11:46 PM. Reason: Attached Image For Larger View
03-31-10 09:13 PM - Heh, someone else I know just freaked out about this too... My guess is that one of the password servers went down for a few, or was messed up in some way, and it triggered a lock on the account.
Could have been bad communication between the berry and the tower as well resulting in a corrupted password.
End of it is that all the BIS traffic from your device comes from RIM servers located in Canada. No worries beyond facebooks questionable password servers
Your phone checks facebook for updates when you're not using it, that's most likely when the failure occurred.03-31-10 09:26 PM - What your saying with the server (BIS 3.0) update I guess makes sense. And even if I were to go to the bathroom I would have taken my BB with me, haha!
I never really was worried about somebody logging into my Facebook. I posted it because I did find it weird and was looking for a explanation or if anybody had any idea what would have triggered it.
@ what guibenette said that is what I got when I logged into Facebook just with a different IP.04-02-10 11:36 AM
