Nervous about my Gmail
Jun. 10th, 2010 10:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoggedI seem to be unable to access my Gmail account at the moment.
They're saying I can give them my phone number and they'll send me a text with some security code but I don't feel comfortable doing that, especially because I don't know what's going on.
*is nervous*
I really hope I haven't suffered the wrath of some hacker.
ETA: After a google search and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
countessmary finding the link on account recovery, I got the text sent to me anyways. It appears that a bot tried to send out a bazillion emails but Google stopped it from happening. Of course, this means I'm the suspicious one despite that not being the case. But at least, I'm back in business and hopefully, this won't happen again.
They're saying I can give them my phone number and they'll send me a text with some security code but I don't feel comfortable doing that, especially because I don't know what's going on.
*is nervous*
I really hope I haven't suffered the wrath of some hacker.
ETA: After a google search and
countessmary finding the link on account recovery, I got the text sent to me anyways. It appears that a bot tried to send out a bazillion emails but Google stopped it from happening. Of course, this means I'm the suspicious one despite that not being the case. But at least, I'm back in business and hopefully, this won't happen again.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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on 2010-06-10 06:36 pm (UTC)That was part of the process of getting my access back.