Passwords spontaneously changed in two email accounts
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: bill.gearhiser, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/130.0.0.0
Steps to reproduce:
Unknown.
Actual results:
Passwords for two of my accounts (aol.com and gmail.com) changed spontaneously at about the same time. The substitutions had the format expected for a computer-generated password, e.g., long, with random upper and lower case characters. Consequently Thunderbird (silently) quit updating the inbox for these two accounts.
Expected results:
Normal operation including periodic inbox updates.
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Comment 1•1 month ago
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Sounds like you were using something quite old, and after upgrade you got converted over to using OAuth2 (which has tokens like what you've described.) You'd have been asked to log in though in a login window.
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