gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » google account security http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Account Recovery Per SMS Available In Additional Countrieshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/15/google-account-recovery-per-sms-available-in-additional-countries/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/15/google-account-recovery-per-sms-available-in-additional-countries/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:07:51 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=14414 googleGoogle introduced a new account recovery option some time ago that allowed Google users from the United States to add a cell phone number to their account. The user could then use an SMS to recovery the Google account password, something that many users wanted to do but could not because of the country limitation. This new feature of recovering a Google account is especially important for users who use Google services like Google Adsense, Adwords or Google Mail (Gmail) regularly. The SMS option could be the last option for a user who lost the password to the Google account or is not able to log in because of a hacked account.

The option to enter a cell phone number and recover the Google account password by SMS was only available to US users. Google seems to have changed this frequently as German users (and probably users from other countries such as the UK, France or Canada) can now add a cell phone number to their account as well to use the SMS for password recovery.

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The option is available after logging in (at any Google service), selecting the My Account link on the top right corner of the screen and the Change password recovery options link under Security. Please let us know where you are from and if you are seeing the SMS option under security.

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