"Someone just used your password..."

From	Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.security.misc
Subject	"Someone just used your password..."
Date	2016-12-04 17:28 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<o2257e$5th$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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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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"Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 17:28 -0500
  Re: "Someone just used your password..." Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-04 23:01 +0000
    Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 18:54 -0500
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 00:29 +0000
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-05 09:15 +0000
        Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 04:20 -0500
          Re: "Someone just used your password..." Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-05 11:26 +0000
            Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 07:20 -0500
              Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 12:47 +0000
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-12-05 12:57 +0000
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 13:59 -0500
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 14:07 -0500
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-06 01:54 +0000
                Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 01:52 -0500
  Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 00:27 +0000
    Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 19:45 -0500
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-12-05 00:50 +0000
        Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 20:11 -0500
  Re: "Someone just used your password..." Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2016-12-05 14:38 +0000
    Re: "Someone just used your password..." Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@OrSPaMcle.COM> - 2016-12-05 15:09 +0000
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-05 14:09 -0500
      Re: "Someone just used your password..." Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2016-12-06 14:29 +0000
        Re: "Someone just used your password..." Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> - 2016-12-06 14:04 -0500
  Re: "Someone just used your password..." wbredstrand@gmail.com - 2017-03-14 13:56 -0700

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