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Worse than an outage, I got this dreaded email from Google a few hours ago. I hope there isn't some sort of attack going on:

Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google Account - xxx@gmail.com.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account.




...

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account.


Messages like this are only sent if the password was correct, AFAIK. (Google sends the message in part as a warning and in part to explain that no, your password wasn't wrong, they just don't think it was actually you.)

This was presumably not you, so change your password immediately.


I had this today as well. Where was your attempt coming from? Mine was in HK.

(To be fair, I think it was my own machine attempting to connect via VPN)


Got one yesterday from Anhui China. I'm definitely not using any VPN services there




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