Hik-Connect “Illegal login” alerts

An “Illegal login” alert from Hik-Connect usually means a bad password attempt or a new device — not proof that someone has broken into your cameras.

  1. Open Hik-Connect on your phone.
  2. If you recently changed your password, sign out and sign back in with the new password on every phone or tablet that uses the app.
  3. Remove any old phones you no longer use (devices that still try the old password can trigger the alert).
  4. If you did not change anything and the alerts keep coming, change your Hik-Connect password, then update it in the app. See Hik-Connect password. On a new phone, start with Hik-Connect on a new phone.
  5. If alerts continue after that, contact us and tell us when they started.

Important: do not ignore repeated alerts after you have updated the password — contact us.

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