Recently some of our office users started getting a weird message from Gmail "Unusal Usage -- Account Temporarily Locked Down". Having moved to Google Apps for Work over three years ago now and still not having forwarded our DNS records to point to Google we initially thought that this was the reason why, however having spent sometime now looking into the random problem it appears it's just a ...
It seems that there have been a lot of posts on Google support groups about this message (site:productforums.google.com or site:groups.google.com) unusual usage account temporarily locked down - Google Search) and unless you're accessing the same account on multiple devices simultaneously (e.g., PC + mobile devices), there's probably nothing that you're doing wrong.
Note: If you are using your account on an insecure network (i.e. open wi-fi), make sure you are accessing Gmail using HTTPS -- not unencrypted HTTP -- to reduce the risk of someone hijacking your session.
Otherwise the problem seems to be caused by cache issues and clearing your browser cache and deleting your saved cookies seems to fix the problem at hand.
It seems that there have been a lot of posts on Google support groups about this message (site:productforums.google.com or site:groups.google.com) unusual usage account temporarily locked down - Google Search) and unless you're accessing the same account on multiple devices simultaneously (e.g., PC + mobile devices), there's probably nothing that you're doing wrong.
Note: If you are using your account on an insecure network (i.e. open wi-fi), make sure you are accessing Gmail using HTTPS -- not unencrypted HTTP -- to reduce the risk of someone hijacking your session.
Otherwise the problem seems to be caused by cache issues and clearing your browser cache and deleting your saved cookies seems to fix the problem at hand.
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