

Check your Google Drive documents to check your sharing permissions.Check your Sent mail to review any email that went out of your account while it was compromised.To remove an app's access to your account, click on the app and click Remove Access.If you do see this option, click on Manage third-party access to review all the apps that have access to your account.If you don't have this option, you can ignore the next few steps. If any third-party apps have access to your account, you should see the Third-party apps with account access section.Click on Security on the left-hand side.Sign into with your Brown Gmail account.You can close out the window you receive notice that all other sessions have been signed out. You can also view the last 10 times your account was accessed on this page. In the new window, click on Sign out all other web sessions. You may need to scroll down if you've got a lot of email. Sign out all other web sessionsĬlick on the word Details located at the bottom right-hand corner of Gmail.

Make sure to click on Save changes if you made any corrections to your settings. IMAP access: This should be disabled unless you know used for an email client (e.g. POP download: This should be disabled unless you know used for an email client (e.g. Forwarding and POP/IMAP tabįorwarding: This should either be set to Disable forwarding or set to forward to an address you approve.

Delete any rules you did not create like ones that delete your email.īlocked addresses: Unblock any email addresses that should be allowed to email you. Filters and Blocked Address tabįilters: Filters are rules applied to your email. If needed, you can correct it by clicking on edit info, make your edit, and click Save changes. Send mail as: This should be set as your name and Brown email address. Vacation responder: This should be either be set to Vacation responder off or have a response you've created. Signature: Make sure that your signature is either set to No signature or it's something that you've created. Go into your Gmail account's settings by clicking on the cog/gear at the top, right-hand corner of Gmail and then clicking Settings. These steps require you sign into with your Brown email account while on a computer.
CHECK GMAIL ID VERIFICATION
click the menu option for Two-Step Verification.You can also use Brown-authorized services like LastPass.
CHECK GMAIL ID GENERATOR
If you're on Chrome, you can use Google's password generator to generate complex passwords that will be stored within Chrome. OIT suggests using different passwords for your online accounts. You should also change the password for any other accounts that use the same password and passwords for accounts that you think may no longer be secure.
