Going through the list of connections from your screencap (I wish had the foresight to snap my own when I discovered the data usage.) I’ve done some basic research for each.
- 2606:4700:30::681f:529d
Apparently is cloudflare, which isn’t actually
Helpful as that could just be anyone on the end of a cloudflare service.
https://www.ip-tracker.org/locator/ip-lookup.php?ip=2606:4700:30::681f:529d
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=hwcdn.net%2F
A rentable instance of cloud computing using the amazon servers.
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1e100.net
2600:1901:0:498c::
Bc.googleusercontent.com
2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22e
All of the above are different connections to google data and cloud computing services. Bc.googleusercontent Specifically for programmers to run cloud based code and applications. And IP address 2707… is a set of google mail servers.
https://www.abuseipdb.com/whois/2600:1901:0:498c::
I’m not too concerned by the locations, I’m still really confused how Balenaetcher can have used so much of my computer network resources.
- was anything downloaded or uploaded to my machine?
- are my files and data safe?
- were you using my computer resources for anything equating to distributed processing? Like cryptomining, or another node for cloud computing?
150gb is really excessive, and in Australia mobile data like that isn’t cheap. But I’m not as worried about that as much as I am wanting to know if my personal data is safe.
Thank you for your time, I hope this hasn’t come across as accusatory I’m simply looking for answers.