Timeline for Spooky Suspicious Sign-In From My Town
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| Jan 15, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSecurity/status/1349914413411799041 | ||
| Dec 31, 2020 at 5:08 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Dec 31, 2020 at 4:10 | comment | added | Janet McElroy | It wasn't an email, it was one of the in-app notifications from gmail. And the attempt shows up in google's security events panel, so it was definitely legit. I had all devices that could have made a login attempt with me, and I wasn't logging into any google services at the time, so I'm almost certain it wasn't coming from them. Besides, as mentioned in an update comment to the answer below, I managed to track down the IP this was coming from and it wasn't my house. I'm stumped! | |
| Dec 31, 2020 at 1:26 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jan 15, 2021 at 3:12 | |||||
| Dec 30, 2020 at 22:13 | answer | added | Polynomial | timeline score: 5 | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 22:12 | comment | added | browsermator | it is unlikely, yes. I think it's really just a matter of you being in a new town that flagged it. Not sure why NT/Chrome came up. It's also possible that the e-mail itself was a phishing attempt. Did you verify the e-mail headers? | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 21:27 | comment | added | Janet McElroy | I suppose it's possible that I logged in on a wifi network somewhere that hijacked my credentials, but this seems unlikely to me because I use LTE for all my portable devices. And they are all iOS/iPadOS devices with Safari only, so even if I logged in from one of them it would not show up as a Windows device using Chrome. | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 21:20 | comment | added | browsermator | wild guess here... but it's possible that you accessed a wifi network that stole your session or login. (OR, more likely that YOU logged in from a wifi network and there was no breach at all) It's really difficult to say with any certainty. | |
| Dec 30, 2020 at 21:09 | review | First posts | |||
| Dec 31, 2020 at 1:07 | |||||
| Dec 30, 2020 at 21:04 | history | asked | Janet McElroy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |