There have been a lot of security issues with GMail in the past few days. It is better to take some precautions before your account has been compromised.
First and foremost, it is better to use https instead of http. In lay man terms, s means secure. To make sure that you are always using https, login to GMail and go to your settings. Look at the bottom-most setting:
Now make sure that Always use https is selected as above and Save Changes.
Another precaution would be not to store passwords in the browser and not to check the “Remember me on this computer.” when logging in to gmail. If you think that you have logged in with this setting on other computers, you log out from those browsers as follows: Look at the footer in your gmail, i.e. right at the bottom. You will see something like “Last account activity: 1 hour ago on this computer. Details” as shown below
Now click on Details and you can log out of all other sessions using the window that appears. You can find out more about this feature here.
Stay safe, don’t let your account be compromised. Oh, and please use a good password.
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