Password Reset

[cannygoodlike]

It seems that every now and again, this site decides that my registered password is not going to be recognised any more. This is despite my having it written down in a password manager and making multiple attempts at entering it. I accept that this could be user error, and it seems to go a while before it happens, but it now feels like something that has happened to me a few times on this site over the years. Is some sort of expiration set on passwords?

Anyway, that is not my main issue. In order to resolve this I have to request a password reset, which *shouldn't* be too big a deal, but the bloody captcha thing is a complete nightmare! It took me about 5 attempts for me to get the expected string of characters and this was despite me refreshing many times to reject those images I felt I had no chance with.

I know that the captcha is there for a good reason but the ones on this site are ridiculous.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://i.postimg.cc/B6yZ2p4q/fakecaptcha.jpg

[Munster]

It seems that every now and again, this site decides that my registered password is not going to be recognised any more. This is despite my having it written down in a password manager and making multiple attempts at entering it. I accept that this could be user error, and it seems to go a while before it happens, but it now feels like something that has happened to me a few times on this site over the years. Is some sort of expiration set on passwords?

Anyway, that is not my main issue. In order to resolve this I have to request a password reset, which *shouldn't* be too big a deal, but the bloody captcha thing is a complete nightmare! It took me about 5 attempts for me to get the expected string of characters and this was despite me refreshing many times to reject those images I felt I had no chance with.

I know that the captcha is there for a good reason but the ones on this site are ridiculous.

The same has just happened to me. I am no idiot but I had about 15 gos before I got lucky

[Dave (in MA)]

The same has just happened to me. I am no idiot but I had about 15 gos before I got lucky

I am an idiot, but it's never happened to me.

[Munster]

I am an idiot, but it's never happened to me.

Well ... on second thoughts, maybe I am. I ran CCleaner and it knocked out all my passwords. I can usually read the letters in Image Verification, but the PE one is the most confusing I have encountered.

[JKL2000]

Speaking of passwords, did anyone receive an email from a scammer or blackmailer using an old password as the subject line? Because I did. The old password was one I used for more than one site, and pretty old fortunately.But since PEs member data was snagged a number of years back, just thought I’d ask.

[Zeuhlmate]

Speaking of passwords, did anyone receive an email from a scammer or blackmailer using an old password as the subject line? Because I did. The old password was one I used for more than one site, and pretty old fortunately.But since PEs member data was snagged a number of years back, just thought I’d ask.

Years ago, I received such an email with an obsolete psw.
One should change them frequently. One never does.

[Dave (in MA)]

Speaking of passwords, did anyone receive an email from a scammer or blackmailer using an old password as the subject line? Because I did. The old password was one I used for more than one site, and pretty old fortunately.But since PEs member data was snagged a number of years back, just thought I’d ask.

I'd guess that if you selected a phrase from the e-mail not including the password itself and googled it surrounded by double quotes, you'll find a bunch of people hit up by the same scam. Your old password might have been included in a data breach along with thousands or millions of others.

https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

[JKL2000]

I'd guess that if you selected a phrase from the e-mail not including the password itself and googled it surrounded by double quotes, you'll find a bunch of people hit up by the same scam. Your old password might have been included in a data breach along with thousands or millions of others.

https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/

Good thought of checking that way - this is what I’m assuming is the case.

[JKL2000]

I've been having a problem lately where if I want to change my password, the site won't let me do it without also changing my email address. It says that email address is a required field even though it says on the password reset page that changing your email address is optional. I only want to change my password, and had entered my username instead of my email address (which it says is accepted). Anyone else seen this?

[hwkn]

I was logged in yesterday but today I wasn't though I never did anything to log myself out.......I ended up getting a new password because I couldn't remember the old one.