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  • "Someone just used your password..."

    From Alek@21:1/5 to Joe Beanfish on Tue Dec 6 14:04:45 2016
    Joe Beanfish wrote on 12/6/2016 9:29 AM:
    On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:09:43 +0000, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:

    Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> writes:

    Perhaps your mobile device connected to google while you were at
    a location you don't frequent.

    I would suggest that google would recognize it as one of your known
    devices.

    You might think so. But I've gotten that msg on occasion and every
    time I study the GPS and day/time it turns out to be when and where
    I was. The complaint may be in part because I use a non-google email
    client (K9) or because I used their WiFi (password protected fwiw).

    The google email said Illinois and I'm in NJ.

    I use K9 also,

    Whose wifi is that?

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  • From Joe Beanfish@21:1/5 to Casper H.S. Dik on Tue Dec 6 14:29:07 2016
    On Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:09:43 +0000, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:

    Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> writes:

    Perhaps your mobile device connected to google while you were at
    a location you don't frequent.

    I would suggest that google would recognize it as one of your known
    devices.

    You might think so. But I've gotten that msg on occasion and every
    time I study the GPS and day/time it turns out to be when and where
    I was. The complaint may be in part because I use a non-google email
    client (K9) or because I used their WiFi (password protected fwiw).


    (I've taking my devices all over the world and I've never had
    such an error; that would be strange especially was the whole
    point of Android devices is being mobile)

    Casper

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  • From wbredstrand@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Alek on Tue Mar 14 13:56:46 2017
    On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 2:28:15 PM UTC-8, Alek wrote:
    A couple of my Google accounts have gotten the following message:


    Hi [username],

    Someone just used your password to try to sign in to your Google Account [username]@gmail.com, using an application such as an email client or
    mobile device.

    Details:
    Wednesday, November 30, 2016 8:32 PM (Central Standard Time) Illinois, USA*

    Google stopped this sign-in attempt, but you should review your recently
    used devices:

    What does this really mean?

    How could that person/entity get my passwords? IOW is there some basic security practice I'm missing? Don't they need to be able to access to
    one or more of my computers/smartphones to get passwords?

    Thanks.

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