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Gmail says i have a session open on another device, further inspection it comes from an "Unknown" access type but has the same IP and location as me.

Kyozo
By Kyozo
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First of all, let me clear a few things. I never sign in to Gmail yet alone my google account to any other device expect my one, which is not publicly accessible meaning people are unable to use my computer without me knowing. When I go to security sessions on google there are no recent signs ins, the only thing in that section is the 2 factor authentication i put on my account a few days ago. As for the current session section the only device there is mine and it says I'm logged in with 1 session running presumably mine i guess. It also says I use no other sites or apps that i use google to log in with and also no linked accounts associated with my google as well. In the screenshot provided shows the concurrent session which is referring to the other device, you can see it comes from an unknown access type but has the same IP and location as me. I want to reiterate I only use this device to sign into my google account and gmail, this is further proven by the fact that google says I only have one session open on this device in google security settings. Also we can see all the logins from me and the unknown acesss share the same IP and location. Sometimes the unknown logs into the gmail in the exact same time I do indicated by the date and time section. Help me figure this out please. Thank you kindly.

Screenshot displaying activity section: https://gyazo.com/78c0295918d62cfb56001d9473d4514c

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you wrote a lot to say very little. 

If you have two factor authentication on, just sign out of everything. Then you will know any sign in is legitimate.  
In most cases if the IP and location are the same it's not malicious, google just has an issue classifying the session type. 

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Which possibly means your PC security is blocking google apis from identifying your machine, so if you use Thunderbird, it will log an Unknown connection and while logged into the server manually, it shows you identified. It is not just machine ID but Applications accessing your account ID, which may very well be yours most likely than not, but unknown to the server.

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