“EvilCo” wants to make you look bad by downloading. You are a customer of “good ISP” and your home router public IP address is 1.1.5.5. Let’s assume the “good ISP” company is allocated 1.1.0.0/16. If someone calls you and claims that your IP is hacked, they are probably a scammer. But usually the attack would have to be for a larger address block and (as Eevee commented) require an attacker with specific skills and access. Network engineer with Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) experience here.
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