Except this time that panel didn't come up, so I tried again and it let me in. An hour later they send me a text with a G-XXXXXX number.

I thought: "Okay. Weird. I guess the system got confused and sent me a text, which is why my smartphone didn't have that 'is it you?' panel."

But now I'm getting a text from them every day with an authenticator.

I would love to get this to stop, or get enough context to see if this is some sort of attack. But Google rather famously has no customer support.

It's similar to this question asked on the google support forums, but Google declined to answer it.

https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/117272646/google-keep-sending-me-the-same-verification-code-4-days-how-i-can-stop-it?hl=en

Anyone know what's going on with this? Should I be worried I'm under a persistent daily attack from a wiley hacker?

Would love to hear if anyone's seen this before or knows how to convince google to only send authenticators when I request them.