>>>>>>Early this morning my Gmail account got hacked - according to Google, it came from Tysons Corner, Virginia
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>>>>What was the hack? Keylogger stole your password at an airport or other public machine, you used an unsecured wifi somewhere, or password too easy?
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>>>>FWIW, the commonly recommended character replacement => "hell0" or "Un1v3rs4l" in 2015 is easily hacked and not good practice despite what still gets said. Much more difficult is a combination of words with an unexpected Caps character and at least one unexpected symbol. A 15-character password with unpredictable characters and symbols remains fearfully difficult to hack. Also watch out for unsecured public wifi popping up everywhere. Phones are a particular problem since simply walking past a Starbucks could cause your gmail to poll your inbox across the unsecured wifi so any nasty ratbag in range can sniff your credentials.
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>>>The password was definitely not an easy one.
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>>>I don't use public wifi.
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>>>It is a Gmail account I rarely use these days. I used it often four years ago.
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>>So did Googl say it was hacked (IOW somebody had access) or Google stopped a try?
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>It was hacked - the person figured out my password - but because it was from a location other than prior signon attempts, it blocked access.
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