Google is the most popular workspace around the world. Millions of people have an account on Gmail, that’s why it is the target of hackers. More often, people have complaints that someone else is using their account.
How to find out if your Gmail Account is Hacked?
Are you worried about someone else is accessing your Gmail account?
Here is the way through which you can spot that someone else is accessing my account.
- Google has the feature of sending an authentication code to your inbox while accessing other devices. If you received an authentication code, then understand your account is accessed on some other device.
- The email that you have not sent to your contact is present in your sent box.
- Your user ID password is getting changed
- The contact list is modified.
- You can’t get logged into your account and the email receiving it gets stopped.
- You received the complaint from your contact about sending suspicious emails.
- Furthermore, you have not sent the email to your contact, but it is in your sent email column.
Now you get that your Gmail account is hacked. So, no need to panic. We are here to let you know how you know who is accessing your account, and how can you recover your account.
Check the Device that Accessing your Account
You have the option to check the devices that have access to your account recently. Follow the steps to check the device
- Go to the “Google account” on the “Google Activity” page
- Log in to your Gmail account, if can’t then use forgot your password to reset your password and login to your account.
- After logging in, select “Security” on the left navigation panel and choose “Manage all devices”
- Here you will see the list of devices that have accessed your account for how long.
- It can be on any one device or multiple devices.
- If you found the session in any of the devices that are not used by you, sign out to all the devices and mark it as “Device not recognized” by you.
Now you have to do is to check recent activity on your account. Log into your account and go to the bottom right corner of the inbox page, click on “Details”. Here you will find the IP address, location, date and time, everything.
You are now confirmed that anyone else is using your account, then secure your account by taking some steps.
Now change your password that should be strong so that hacking your password will be difficult.
Sum up:
This is a common problem that many people face nowadays.
All you need to know about how to find out if someone has a Gmail account is explained to you. Hope you have got the relevant information from this post.
