Is Google using my WordPress login?
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I run WordPress on a hosted server with the Wordfence security package installed. Wordfence emails me whenever an administrator ID logs in to the site. Usually it’s only me. Yesterday I got an email telling me that my admin ID had logged in from an IP address that is owned by Google. Specifically, it told me this:
A user with username “xxxxxxxxx” who has administrator access signed in to your WordPress site.
User IP: 66.249.92.31
User hostname: rate-limited-proxy-66-249-92-31.google.com
User location: Mountain View, United StatesI was not anywhere near any of my computers when this login took place. I have never shared these login credentials with anyone else, except, crucially, with Google, via the Chrome browser’s password saving feature.
I find it troubling to think what legitimate purpose Google would have to make use of knowledge what should be entirely private to me. There doesn’t appear to be any way to raise this query with Google. I am seriously considering terminating my use of Google, as it’s just too scary to think what else they could do with information they already have.
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