Gmail/Google Account compromized?

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I hope I'm posting this in the correct section.

At 19:45, I got 4 identical email from Google:
Hi,

To protect your privacy we would like you to know that Google Latitude is running on your mobile device and reporting your location.

If you didn't enable this or want to stop reporting your location, please open Latitude privacy settings or sign out of Latitude. To learn more, visit the Latitude Help Center.

Thanks,

Google Latitude Team

(c) 2011 Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
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But I don't have have Latitude installed on my phone, so I go to https://www.google.com/latitude and see that I'm in Seattle, USA at the moment. Funny, since I'm sitting is Stellenbosch. So I went to Gmail and see that my account has been accessed with IMAP:

18:36 - IP: 184.73.120.155
18:52 - IP: 50.17.59.15
19:07 - IP: 204.236.246.95
19:36 - IP: 50.16.127.111
19:52 - IP: 75.101.189.55

So I changed my password and came here for some advice. Just before I hit 'submit', I see that it's been accessed again, even though I changed my password.

20:07 - IP: 184.73.120.155

WTF? Is this just Google's servers being weird, or is something seriously wrong. Can you please check that your own account are good?

EDIT: I have 2-step verification enabled, and it works, but somehow it's not stopping the IP's from the States.
 
somewhere there is an option to log you out of all other current sessions. (i'm sure i've seen it before. Posting from cell so can't check)

That cell connection will stay even though you changed password coz the cell is always logged on. It would need to be logged off to kill the connection.

Then change password again.
 
Venomous said:
somewhere there is an option to log you out of all other current sessions. (i'm sure i've seen it before. Posting from cell so can't check)

That cell connection will stay even though you changed password coz the cell is always logged on. It would need to be logged off to kill the connection.

Then change password again.
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Already did this. Changed the password 3 times now. Also changed security question. And logged out all other sessions. IMAP still accessing my account.
 
Gmail been strange, got 2 emails from one contact, but content was from a different contact.
Could be be there servers suffered a small stroke?
 
I think I might have figured it out. I recently signed up at ifttt.com, a site which allows triggers to set of certain actions. I set it up to send me a sms when a certain person sends me an email. It must have been their servers checking my account for new mail every few minutes. I've revoked the access to my account now and will report back if this fixes it. :o
 
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