Gmail account hacked

Some time early Sunday morning someone managed to get into my Gmail account and spam everybody in my (somewhat extensive) contacts list. If you got one, please delete it.

I discovered it this morning when I could not get into my account. They had changed the password. I went through the password recovery and got control of the account back.

When I was able to get back into the account there was a message from Google that the account had been accessed from China and if it wasn't me that I should change my password.

Well, guys, I understand that they are trying to be on top of things, but it seems to me a bit stupid. Obviously they are keeping track of the accessing IP address. So they figured that in the five hours since I had last accessed the account that I had traveled to China and logged back in?

Anyway, I think the problem is solved. If you received spam from me, I'm sorry.

Janet