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Send email notification for unknown sign ins

Drew Blessing requested to merge dblessing-email-on-new-signin into master

What does this MR do?

Closes #27211 (closed)

When a user successfully signs in from a previously unknown IP Address, send an email notification. This will allow GitLab to proactively alert users of potentially malicious and unauthorized sign-ins due to brute force password attacks or otherwise compromised user passwords.

Screenshots

HTML Email screenshot:

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

Security

If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

  • Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Edited by Drew Blessing

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