Zombie Documents in Google Drive?
January 3, 2020 7:12 AM Subscribe
This morning, a ton of old documents in Google Drive showed up as newly "opened by me". But it wasn't me. Any logical explanation for this other than hacking/unauthorized access? And if it was unauthorized access, anything else I should do?
I have 2FA on my account, and there's no sign of any strange devices logged in. A few documents were opened every few minutes for about half an hour, and stopped after I changed my password.
Needless to say, this is frightening, even though all the documents reviewed are old and don't contain any sensitive personal info. What do I do now?
I have 2FA on my account, and there's no sign of any strange devices logged in. A few documents were opened every few minutes for about half an hour, and stopped after I changed my password.
Needless to say, this is frightening, even though all the documents reviewed are old and don't contain any sensitive personal info. What do I do now?
Something that may seem obvious, but just in case, could someone else be using a computer or device that you were logged in on? An old laptop you gave to someone, or someone borrowing your iPad? A coworker borrowing your desktop because theirs was broken?
posted by Rock Steady at 7:36 AM on January 3, 2020
posted by Rock Steady at 7:36 AM on January 3, 2020
Go to https://myaccount.google.com/security and you can see recent logins. Pretty sure you can see every logged in location, somewhere. Do the security checkup.
Please update if you can, as it would be quite helpful to others, and also, I'll worry.
posted by theora55 at 9:13 AM on January 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
Please update if you can, as it would be quite helpful to others, and also, I'll worry.
posted by theora55 at 9:13 AM on January 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
Response by poster: Do you have it synced to a computer that was turned on at the time? I can imagine your OS's search functionality indexing a file counting as "opening" to Google Drive. Probably and I sure hope this is the explanation.
Something that may seem obvious, but just in case, could someone else be using a computer or device that you were logged in on? Unlikely. I am only logged in on devices that I (or my spouse) can access.
I tried reviewing recent logins, but the login activity from this morning had already rolled off the page.
I'll continue monitoring this to ensure it doesn't happen again!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 12:43 PM on January 3, 2020
Something that may seem obvious, but just in case, could someone else be using a computer or device that you were logged in on? Unlikely. I am only logged in on devices that I (or my spouse) can access.
I tried reviewing recent logins, but the login activity from this morning had already rolled off the page.
I'll continue monitoring this to ensure it doesn't happen again!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 12:43 PM on January 3, 2020
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posted by supercres at 7:28 AM on January 3, 2020