Gmail is the most popular email
service and we all use it as an official and personal purpose. Your Gmail
account may be compromised & have unauthorized access of any third person
and you might be not aware of this. So, How we can find out that our Gmail
account is accessed by another person or not?
our Gmail
account may be hacked or compromised due to your fault also, like: if you have
authorized third party addon or services to access our Gmail Account OR
accessed our Gmail account from others PC etc. Here you will get 3
ways through which you can know Whether your Gmail account
is still safe or not. Let’s check out:
How to Find Out
Who (Or What) Is Accessing Your Gmail
Let’s see 3
ways you can find out if anybody is accessing your Gmail account or not.
1.
Track
Last Activity Details of your Gmail Account
2.
Find
out Which People Access to Your Gmail Account
3.
Find
out Third-party Application has access to your Gmail Account
#1.
Track Last Account Activity Details of your Gmail Account
You can get
the details from where your Gmail account is accessed in past few days. Gmail
gives you this option but most of us don’t know about it. To get your account
activity details, follow the steps given below:
Step 1: First login to your Gmail account and on
Extreme Right Bottom side, you will get “Last Account Activity” with
a link to “Details”.
Step 2: Just
Click on “Details” link. A window will pop-up having details
of all the past active session of your Gmail Account.
You can easily check the Date, Time
& Location, whether it was accessed by other person or not. If it was
accessed by others, you can sign out remotely from any device.
#2.
Find out Which People Access to Your Gmail Account
In Gmail, you
can delegate your Gmail account to another account. That means you can grant
access to another person to handle your Gmail account on your behalf.
For security
measure, we should keep checking if anyone is having the access to your Gmail
account or not.
To find out,
Just head to Gmail Settings and in ‘Accounts and import’ Tab, you will get all
email address to which access has been granted. Read Step by Step Full Guide:
#3. Find out Which
Third-party Application has access to your Gmail Account
In case you
are any Gmail Addon like Deskun, Snapmail or Boomerang for extra features then
you must have authorized these addon or application to access your Gmail
account. If you are no longer using these services, it’s better to revoke
access from them.
You can get
the list of all authorized apps/applications with your Gmail account and remove
or revoke access from them. Read Here detailed article:
Using these ways you can check and
easily remove others access from your Gmail account
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