Got an odd one for the Nerdery board to solve.
I have an ancient Thinkpad x200 that I use as a linux box (Linux Mint), mostly for homebrewing software and brew data, and occassional other random utilities. The laptop has been completely shut off for the last week and a half. Today I booted it up, opened Firefox (normally I use chrome, but today I opened Firefox just for grins) and went to gmail. Gmail autologged into an account that I have never seen or heard off: the address is ppgsanantonio@gmail.com, and the associated name is Pedro Gllgo. Both of these are completely foriegn to me. The account just has one email in the inbox - the welcome to gmail message you get when you first sign up.
Here's the weird part. I checked the usage statistics - the only logins into the account have been today, and two logins from 2 days ago. Like I said, this is the first time I've even booted the laptop up in almost two weeks. It's been sitting in a box.
Any thoughts? Is this some kind of weird gmail glitch? Is this a sign of a hack? How would that even be possible?
I have an ancient Thinkpad x200 that I use as a linux box (Linux Mint), mostly for homebrewing software and brew data, and occassional other random utilities. The laptop has been completely shut off for the last week and a half. Today I booted it up, opened Firefox (normally I use chrome, but today I opened Firefox just for grins) and went to gmail. Gmail autologged into an account that I have never seen or heard off: the address is ppgsanantonio@gmail.com, and the associated name is Pedro Gllgo. Both of these are completely foriegn to me. The account just has one email in the inbox - the welcome to gmail message you get when you first sign up.
Here's the weird part. I checked the usage statistics - the only logins into the account have been today, and two logins from 2 days ago. Like I said, this is the first time I've even booted the laptop up in almost two weeks. It's been sitting in a box.
Any thoughts? Is this some kind of weird gmail glitch? Is this a sign of a hack? How would that even be possible?