Just been forced to password reset on MSE

GW78

I guess it's everyone, wonder what's happened to prompt it?!

Peter999_2

Has the site been hacked?, force everyone to change their password.

Middlestitch

Quite - why not secure place to change/use passwords? Not impressed.

Lorian

Peter999 wrote: »

Has the site been hacked?, force everyone to change their password.

64,000$ Question.

ZenerDiode

Me too!

My password was something like 265 days old - at least I think that's the number it said.

:think:

Inforapennyinforapound

Me too.....nuisance!

fermi

Password update prompt

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Hi everyone

As eagle-eyed regular forum members have noticed already, we're asking you all to update your passwords. You should be doing this regularly for your own peace of mind.

Some hadn't been updated for some time and we want to make sure you change them regularly.

Thanks for your patience. Have a great weekend.

Andrea

LHW99

Bit of a difference between 138 days and 4000+ days though!
And why is the area where you change it NOT SECURE

LittleVoice

GW78 wrote: »

I guess it's everyone, wonder what's happened to prompt it?!

Wonder if they will ever tell us . . .


And I thought that as long as you used different passwords for different sites there isn't really an advantage to changing passwords regularly - with the accompanying problems of for ever changing them for so many different sites.

Middlestitch

fermi wrote: »

Password update prompt

So you are prompting millions of users to change their passwords on an insecure site and then log in while getting the message 'this site is not secure'.

Why (or why not)?