Google provides a way to check your account activity in GMail. Using this facility you can verify if some one else is also accessing your Gmail account. It is quite possible for someone to get your credentials particularly when you are using a shared public computers. To see your account activity, click the Details link next to the Last account activity line at the bottom of any Gmail page
Access type
The ‘Access type’ column to find out who and when someone accessed your mail. For instance, if the column shows any POP access, but you don’t use POP to collect your mail, it may be a sign that your account has been compromised.
Location (IP address)
In this column the last 10 IP addresses would be listed from where your mail was accessed from, and the associated locations.
Concurrent sessions
If your mail is currently being accessed from another location, the ‘Concurrent session information’ would be shown in a table (as shown in the above image). If there are other sessions displayed, this could mean that you simply have another browser4 window open with Gmail loaded, or that you’re sign in on another computer. If you’re concerned about any concurrent access, you can sign out all sessions other than your current session by clicking Sign out all other sessions.
Unfortunately the Last Accessed information is not applicable for accessing any other Google services using your id and password. I tried logging in another machine to the accounts.google.com and navigated in the page, but GMail did not reported this activity. The feature is for “Account Activity” not just Gmail activity, so they should consider including other google services too for including in this report.
Thanks for sharing this valuable information. I have been wanting to check this information for my email accounts for quite some time. However, many of my email accounts are with yahoo. Does this kind of mechanism exist for Yahoo accounts too?
Thanks for your comment. I am drafting one more post on checking the activity in yahoo. Keep checking the site. yes, It is possible and yahoo login history report is better than Google.
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Please help! what i find that someone is using the my gmail from US as POP3
IP address location is redmond,washington,united states and i live in INdia.
what does that mean :Is someone is Hacking my account Information etc.
Please help what is this all about?
Thanks a lot!!!!
Ashish, If you ever accessed your gmail using any proxy services, then you may see the proxy location instead of your ISP location. There are also rumors that google is infact randomly accessing users email box to check the new ad system in the emails. Whatever the reason, when you feel something is not right, just change the password immediately.
My ex wife has guessed my password and she has accessed my account as she knows of e-mails which have only been on my e-mail account and there are more than one set of occasions. I have searched on the last activity on ip addresses eg but this doesn’t seem to go back very far, in fact just the last 11hours? I need to check activity over the last 2-3 months, is this possible? Thank you for any help you can give.
I suggest you change your password and account recover options immediately. Gmail shows a maximum of recent 10 entries in the details page. I don’t think we can see more than one month activity in the details page, that is because google expects you to login to your account very frequently.
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when i checked my last acount activity found that i m getting some other person’s detail in my acount with his gmail address. plz tell me why so?
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Hi Team,
I have recently seen that my gmail account was being accessed frequently using POP3 access type from United States, though I stay in India.
I don’t use any proxy server as well. I immediately changed my account password and disabled POP3 and IMAP in my account settings.
What else do I need to do to ensure my account is not compromised?
Thanks!