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Hacked even with armor active
I got a letter from my ISP that my connection was used to hack, I purchased netgear armor and activated it on my netgear router nighhawk x6 r8000 and on all other devices. A week later I recieved the same letter form my ISP and today i noticed a strange connection in my network. a unknown device was connected to the network named Han Hoi precision computer thrue wifi. I had set the router to not allow new devices to connect to the router but still it did.
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Han Hai Precision Computer is the official name of Foxconn, Inc. which makes iPhones among other products for different vendors. They didn't "hack" your router.
You can name you computer what ever you want it doesnt mean that it is accually that company, issue is that there is no machine with this mac adres in my house not even de brother printer that was offline at the time.
Quasar, what the previous poster was alluding was not about manually naming.. It's that certain devices by default show up as the manufacturer, like I've seen the PS4 for example does for some show up as Hon Hai Precision and you can rename it to whatever you wan't of course.. I have a device on my own network that shows up as Hon Hai Precision as well before I renamed it, which I think was one of my media players.
As for being hacked:
Scenario 1: If you are talking about devices showing up in Windows that are not yours, that can happen due to some discovery function on Windows that can show neigboring devices at times, but they aren't actually connected to your netwrork though, so nothing to worry about.
Scenario 2: If the unknown device/s are showing up in your router attached devices section then yeah that scenario may be worrysome. I'd change the WiFi password.
