We had arrived at our vacation destination when she got a call asking about the weird email she just sent, from someone who knew she was on the road. She logged in and immediately changed her password, which I was pretty happy to hear. (My wife isn't a security expert and she shouldn't have to be one, but she knew "change my password" was the right reaction.)
When she told me what happened, I looked through her logs. Sure enough, someone had been logging in from China:
| Browser | 118.81.53.160 | Jul 13 (15 hours ago) |
| Browser | 118.81.81.196 | Jul 12 (2 days ago) |
I don't know how long the hackers had access to the account; they only seem to have done one thing with it: sent out a pretty obvious spam mail to all of her contacts in one big blow. It's a bit of a sense of violation, but nowhere near as bad if she had been using something like Google Docs.
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Services like Twitter have an option for users to enter their Gmail password. It's meant for Twitter to check their Gmail contacts and add them as Twitter contacts.
This might show up as a "strange IP address" on the Google log.. :) For example, Twitter's IP address would be registered under NTT.
(On another note.. yay, Dan blogs again!)
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