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[alexseanchai]

My (Android) phone just insisted a change was made to my Google account, sign in again. I made no change. I have got no emails on either that account or the other one that would suggest someone has been at my account on some device the account doesn't recognize. (Whereas I always get emails at both when first logging in on a new device.)

How concerned do I actually need to be? Enough to change my email password the moment I get home? Enough to factory reset the phone? I'd really like to hear I'm just having an anxiety again, but if that's not true then I need to know...

ETA: apparently a known issue, not apparently a threat

Comments

[longmagpieroads]

I just got the same thing.

[alexseanchai]

That sounds ominous...

[longmagpieroads]

Yeeeah

[longmagpieroads]

This is what Google said about it

[alexseanchai]

So don't panic.

Thanks.

[longmagpieroads]

I needed the reassurance myself TBH.

[rootsofthestories]

Huh, I got this too. I have no idea what that's about but I'm hoping someone else knows.

[alexseanchai]

More ominous...

Don't worry!

[lexicalcrow]

Apparently it's a known issue at the moment with Google (and gmail in particular), but nothing to worry about (it's not hacking or phising etc).

I had a notification pop up on my phone this morning while I was checking my emails, but it seems fine. It got my email at any rate. So yeah. Don't worry. Google knows about it, and it's not a threat.

Re: Don't worry!

[alexseanchai]

Okay. Thanks!

[eleanorjane]

Don't dismiss your concerns as "an anxiety" - you're not wrong or foolish for being careful :)

[alexseanchai]

True.

Thanks.