You may immediately spot a rash of suspicious logins from another location. (See our related article on telling whether someone else is using your Gmail account.) Check Your VPN Use Once you know both those addresses, you should immediately be able to tell which logins were not authorized. You should also know that if you use another device, such as an iPhone with a 3G network, the address will be different from that of your home or office computer. By doing this, you will be able to flag unauthorized access points and prevent them from happening again. The second step is to check your login history in order to figure out when and where someone else used your account. Accordingly, you will need to know which devices you’ve used to access your Gmail account, the IP addresses from which you’ve accessed it, the browsers you used to do it, and the exact dates when you logged on to check your email. These sessions are identified by the device, the browser software, and the IP address used for access.
More specifically, Gmail doesn’t really track users, it tracks sessions. In order to detect unauthorized users, you need to know who the authorized users are.
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But what if your email has been compromised, and it isn’t a one-time situation but rather something that’s been going on for a while? What if someone’s been monitoring your email activity or sending out malicious emails in your name? In this article, we will show you how to do a comprehensive and effective review of your Gmail login history, so that you can detect if there has been a pattern of use by an unauthorized user. In unfortunate instances when someone tries to hack into your Gmail account, the alerts that Google will send will only provide one data point – one login date, one browser, one location.