Re: "Someone just used your password..."

From	Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.security.misc
Subject	Re: "Someone just used your password..."
Date	2016-12-04 18:54 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<o22a8f$pfk$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<o2257e$5th$1@dont-email.me> <87d1h7cn9d.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk>

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Richard Kettlewell wrote on 12/4/2016 6:01 PM:
> Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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:
> 
> How sure are you the mail really came from Google (i.e. is not a phish)?

100%

>> 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?
> 
> Perhaps they can access one of them.  Other possibilities would be that
> you’ve been phished or that your password is easy to guess.

Nope. I'm super careful about falling for phishing, and even if I fell
for one, I surely wouldn't fall for 3 or 4.

None of my passwords is easy to guess. No, I do not use "password" or
"123456". :-)


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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
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