Timeline for Should I be worried about a security breach if Google Maps incorrectly shows that I drove over 650 miles from home?
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| Jun 9, 2019 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAndroid/status/1137736350495596544 | ||
| Jun 3, 2019 at 21:33 | answer | added | John Wayland Bales | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 3, 2019 at 20:59 | comment | added | John Wayland Bales | Recently, I read of an incident in which someone's phone had been temporarily transferred to different SIM card by a scammer. The person contacted his carrier, thinking it was a technical problem. But when he got his phone working again, he discovered that his investment account had been emptied by a six-figure amount. So when I saw that Google Map route from near where I live to Chicago, I kinda freaked. | |
| Jun 3, 2019 at 20:55 | comment | added | John Wayland Bales | The only connection between my phone and car is via bluetooth. I have concluded that my Android tablet, which only connects via AT&T fixed wireless internet caused the event. Google Maps currently thinks that my desktop computer is 400 miles away in Summit, MS. Tomorrow, it may think that it is in Colorado. So I suspect that Google Maps picked up a location of Chicago and constructed a hypothetical route that I would have taken to get there. So now, I am less freaked out. | |
| Jun 3, 2019 at 19:20 | comment | added | Andrew T.♦ | You don't really need someone to clone the whole phone to make this, only your Google account is needed. So, the question is, was someone logged in with/using your Google account on that day and driving through that route? Is your car (Android Auto) logged with your account and someone drove it? | |
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| Jun 3, 2019 at 12:49 | history | asked | John Wayland Bales | CC BY-SA 4.0 |