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

From	William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.security.misc
Subject	Re: "Someone just used your password..."
Date	2016-12-05 00:27 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<o22c8o$uvh$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<o2257e$5th$1@dont-email.me>

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On 2016-12-04, Alek <alek.trishan@gmail.com> 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?

It means that some hacker is trying to get you to push that button so
you can "review your recently used devices", and type in your password.
That way they will have your password.

If they really used your password they would have signed in (not tried)
and google would have no way of knowing that it was someone rather than
you who did it. 


>
> 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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> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>

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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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