Time to bring this one back... I don't want to be an alarmist, but today I woke up, checked mail from my phone without issue, and drifted back to sleep. Then just 45 minutes later, I get a prompt on my phone to re-enter my password... And my (very carefully typed) password doesn't work.
I fire up the PC (Linux, Ubuntu) and it the same thing in Thunderbird... A prompt for my password which fails again. So I pull up gmail.com and attempt a login. Then I see a message from Google saying words to the effect of, "We've locked your account, put your phone number here, and we'll send a confirmation code."
So I did, and they did. And I changed my password (again) to something ridiculously complex, and I'm back into my account on all fronts... But this is getting weird. 15+ years with gmail and I've never had any issues... Now I've had 2 problems in 1 month? It's not like I'm a super rich guy who uses my computer or phone for any sort of transactions, so whoever is doing this is spending a lot of time for no gain whatsoever.
For the curious, I'm running:
DamageControl 2.07.2, ACV (comics viewer), Aldiko (book reader), Backgrounds, Flixter Movies, Totemo Lite, Volume Control and WiFi Analyzer. I just updated a few days ago so I haven't gotten all my regular apps back up yet. You can see there's nothing too crazy