Strange Chrome and Gmail Issue?

[SpiralS]

Friday afternoon I got an email from Google saying my dad signed into his Gmail account. My email is listed as his recovery email and he is not the most tech savvy person out there. I phoned them and asked if they had signed in and I subsequently changed the password immediately. Fast forward to this morning my boss calls me in and low and behold my dads email was signed in on his laptop and all my chrome bookmarks has been copied over to his chrome. Now I wasnt near his laptop but the whole thing is driving my nut in as I havent signed in on his email in ages.

I am not sure how to explain this to my boss as he obviously has it in the back of his mind that I might have gone on his laptop. Anybody have some sort of an idea what might have caused this?

 

[sicelo.m]

Possibly one more reason to stay away from (or limit/control the number of) Google services/products.

Friday afternoon I got an email from Google saying my dad signed into his Gmail account. My email is listed as his recovery email and he is not the most tech savvy person out there. I phoned them and asked if they had signed in and I subsequently changed the password immediately.

What was their answer?

my boss calls me in and low and behold my dads email was signed in on his laptop and all my chrome bookmarks has been copied over to his chrome. Now I wasnt near his laptop but the whole thing is driving my nut in as I havent signed in on his email in ages.

Meaning, you have signed in on your boss' email at some point in time before?
Also, hopefully there was no Pr0n in your bookmarks?

I am not sure how to explain this to my boss as he obviously has it in the back of his mind that I might have gone on his laptop. Anybody have some sort of an idea what might have caused this?

No idea, as I do not use Chrome, but a wild guess could be: you and your boss have a common Gmail account (maybe for the company [after all, I know many businesses that use a free @gmail.com email]) configured on each of your machines. And you have enabled sync of some sort between them? That's what comes to my mind.

Chrome users will likely have better suggestions.

 

[isie]

Friday afternoon I got an email from Google saying my dad signed into his Gmail account. My email is listed as his recovery email and he is not the most tech savvy person out there. I phoned them and asked if they had signed in and I subsequently changed the password immediately. Fast forward to this morning my boss calls me in and low and behold my dads email was signed in on his laptop and all my chrome bookmarks has been copied over to his chrome. Now I wasnt near his laptop but the whole thing is driving my nut in as I havent signed in on his email in ages.

I am not sure how to explain this to my boss as he obviously has it in the back of his mind that I might have gone on his laptop. Anybody have some sort of an idea what might have caused this?

if your dad's email was signed on why was your chrome bookmarks on his browser?

 

[Hamish McPanji]

These things happen when you're working for your dad

 

[infscrtyrisk]

Are you using a proxy at work with SSL inspection & caching SSL content?

 

[chrisc]

Run 2 clubs which both have Gmail accounts. One has an address book with 275 names, the other has 303 names. For 9 years I sent out mailshots using the address books with no problem

Mails sent with club 1's account all get returned with the answer "irregular mail address" all 275 of them. Since Nov 2017
Mails sent with club 2's are delivered in full

Asked Gmail on some forums. No response

 

[SpiralS]

We are a small company and me and my boss are the only front office staff. For some mysterious reason Friday afternoon my dads email was logged in on his google account. That's the part I am trying to understand as it was not me as I was on the road at the time. On top of that when the account was logged in it copied all my Chrome bookmarks to his Chrome account. We pretty much don't have any security on our network and that might be the problem. The only logical explanation is that he got hacked and someone logged on with my dads email who also got hacked. Its doing my nut in