My house was burgled an hour ago

October 28, 2014 9:40 PM

The thieves were interrupted and didn't get much. Jewellery, watches and the worlds crappiest HP laptop. I'm in the process of changing all my passwords, but use Chrome which I keep synced and want to remove the stolen computer from my account. Any easy way to do this? I've done a cursory search to no avail. The irony is it was a really terrible computer, you almost need to be touching the router to get the wifi to work. Suckers, enjoy that piece of junk, I'll keep using this new Macbook Air you left behind.
posted by Keith Talent to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

This should do the trick
posted by azlondon at 12:26 AM on October 29, 2014

I believe azlondon's advice only pertains if your Google account is in a domain running Google Apps for Work (formerly just Google Apps). Which it might be, but you don't mention it.

For a non Apps user, I think visiting your Google Chrome Sync preferences and clicking the "Stop and Clear" button at the bottom is what you want.
posted by mumkin at 1:56 AM on October 29, 2014 [2 favorites]

Change your password recovery questions for your mail account, check the backup e-mail address belongs to you, change your password. Write this new password down so that you do not forget it, you are not in a good frame of mind for remembering things write now. Enable 2FA, watch your account activity and log out all other sessions in gmail.

And for next time: encrypt your laptop. That way if it gets stolen and the screen is locked you don't have to do any of this.
posted by devnull at 2:21 AM on October 29, 2014 [1 favorite]