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That might explain it …


A bit of an update on yesterdays ‘scary’ moment post. I noticed, this morning, a news item on my WordPress dashboard, advertising a WordPress event in Leeds. It would seem that there is a local WP group that meets up quite regularly. It is not likely that I would attend, but I thought it would be good to find out a little more, as I had no idea that this kind of thing existed in the UK.

So to get at the main details etc, I had to join up with an organisation called ‘meetup.com’. Sounded reasonable, so I went ahead and started to fill in the required email, username and password. I scrolled to the bottom of the screen, looking for the ‘next’ button when I spotted one of those Google location markers. To my surprise my location was described as “Huddersfield”. The Google alert claimed that the login attempt was from a PC in the Huddersfield area. A bit of a coincidence!

Now, here’s what I think has happened. The bathroom fitters had to turn off the electric for a while, which of course turned off the internet router. When the power was restored my PC tried to log me back into my Google account, and it failed a couple of times. When It did finally log me in, I then got the notification of the ‘Account Alert’ So it seems (don’t quote me on this) that the perceived hacking attempt, was actually me. Somehow, something was indicating the my laptop was in Huddersfield. Very bizarre indeed as it has never been to Huddersfield.

At the end of the day, I was probably safe, but it did shake me up a little and made more determined to review my password management.

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By Tonyin Google, update, Wordpress23 September 2017295 Words1 Comment

That was a bit scary …


Sat here, just creating an Excel spreadsheet for the eldest, when a “Google Account Alert” suddenly popped up on my screen. I quickly investigated and it seems that someone had tried to login to my Google account from a device that Google didn’t recognise as one of mine. This was very strange as the location of the device (a PC) was in the Huddersfield area. Now I would have thought, that if this was a serious hacking attempt, that they would have ‘cloaked’ their location which would have shown as ‘Location unknown’ but I may be wrong. Of course, a bit of panicking set in and I ran through all my sites that use the same password and changed them.

I really must revisit all my passwords and make the more secure. I often use the same password on different sites. As a former ‘IT’ person, I should know better.

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