Suspicious activity caught on my Google account

Lisa Hendrickson | October 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

Saturday A.M. I got an alert from Google that someone in Austria tried accessing my account on a device. Interesting…never had this happen before. I’m guessing they noticed this either by too many log-in attempts or they caught the IP address (how the computers track where we are logging in from). I logged into Gmail, read the alert and changed my password anyway. I know that no one had it but me, but I guess you can never tell.

As much as I am not a fan of using Google for business email, I am a fan of using it for free accounts over Hotmail or Yahoo because of the security. When clients call in and say they have been hacked, I have only seen one or two come in from Google, most, if not all, are from Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. I’m happy to post that with this Google suspicious email alert I got, I became more of a fan of using it for free email needs. There’s an example of the message below.