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(Mountain View, CA) — Google is warning its two-and-a-half-billion Gmail users to change their passwords after a significant amount of successful intrusions by hackers.
The tech giant put out a warning this week advising users with a Gmail account to be on high alert for suspicious activity and to add extra security measures, like two-factor authentication. Google says the hackers often access Gmail passwords by sending emails with links to fake sign-in pages, and have been targeting people by posing as I-T support staff.
There has been a data breach impacting users of Google services, including Gmail, stemming from a compromise of a Google-managed database on Salesforce’s cloud platform, affecting potentially over 2.5 billion users.
You can check if someone has logged into your Gmail account and see details about the login activity. Google Help says you can view your recent account activity, including the IP addresses and approximate locations of logins. Additionally, you can see which devices are currently signed in to your Google account.
