Again: "Somebody knows your password" (Google)

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 14:57 +0200, Volker Wysk wrote:
> Google notifies me by mail that a log in attempt, with my password,
> has been prevented, because of the device being unknown.

Turn on multifactor authentication. It's really easy and makes a breach
much, much less likely. Even if they know your password they cannot get
in.

> What I don't understand, is that the IP address is my real IP
> address. Does that mean that that login attempt has originated from
> my computer? Is my system compromised..?

That IP address is (almost certainly) the outside address of your
Internet router, so it is the same for all devices in your home
network. If you do not live alone, maybe someone in your household
knows your password. Or someone nearby knows your wifi key AND your
password :-)

I'm pretty sure "known devices" just have a cookie. I block cookies,
and Google never recognises me. So it could be as simple as you cleared
cookies.

Regards, K.

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