For those of you on Gmail, have you ever noticed this little hyperlink down at the bottom right corner of the screen?
If you click on “Details”, the last 10 sessions on your account will be displayed. Now normally I wouldn’t look at it, but if I did it would display a listing of several IP addresses- my router at home, the one for my iPhone and maybe the IP address of my work computer.
I forget what it will say, but if someone else is logged into an account at the same time, there’s a message to that effect. I noticed that one day and figured it was Veronica, she does have my email password, so it wouldn’t be unusual.
But this WAS unusual
An entry from somewhere in Montana? Time to run the IP address thru a search engine
How I have no idea if this is some weird quirk of how the internet works and just reflects a redirect through a server somewhere. I do know that it was time to change my password, just in case something was up.
Was I right to suspect that my email account was hacked? I don’t know, but I do know that I haven’t noticed any unusual entries in the “Last Account Activity” list since then, and I’ve been keeping watch!
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If you’re interested, here’s a great post on choosing a good password.
Happy Monday!
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