Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-46539204-20200822005925/@comment-9605025-20200822011918

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You don't own your IP address so, by definition, no one can steal it from you. People can send your IP address instead of their own (a.k.a. spoofing) and there isn't much you can do about that.

If you are using mobile data, public wi-fi, school network, work network, or VPN, then people don't even need to spoof for this to happen. When you use these types of networks, everyone shares IP addresses from a fixed pool of IP addresses. You get one IP address when you are connected and when you reconnect you get another. The same goes for everyone on these types of networks and you could get one that someone else used while vandalizing a wiki.

That is just how the internet works.