(OT) Google: "Somebody knows your password"

[Volker Wysk]

Am Freitag, 4. August 2017, 15:05:16 CEST schrieb Joel Rees:
> Or, if you are not using plaintext, the displayed URL can be different from
> the actual link.

I'm displaying mails as text by default. When it is a html mail, a message 
appears and you can turn on HTML display. That's the default behaviour for 
KMail.

> >> What's more, I've changed the password in my smartphone and my fetchmail
> >> configuration, and it works fine with the new password. When the old one
> >> was
> >> still in place, I've got error messages for both.
> > 
> > If you changed through someone else's service it might still have used
> > Google to effectuate the change but could have been a simulation around 
it,
> > in that case you indeed did change your password but then the hacker would
> > also know the new one and would keep it for reference.
> 
> man-in-the-middle
> 
> Never visit the link in that mail again, just in case.
> 
> Use a different device, preferably on a network you trust, go directly to
> Google by typing the address in the browser URL field. Change your
> passwords again, to something completely different.

Okay, I've done this.

Thnx
Volker