How on earth can you both not accept the password I copied from my password safe and tell me that I cannot use the same pasaword again?

  • Willem@kutsuya.dev
    20·
    20 hours ago

    If there has been a data leak, they might block your current password because the hash has been leaked

    • cron@feddit.orgOP
      13·
      20 hours ago

      Yes, that might be a plausible theory. Basically a bad yersion of you must change your password.

      • kitnaht@lemmy.world
        24·
        19 hours ago

        How would that be considered bad? Is this some meme I’m too stupid to understand or something?

        • cron@feddit.orgOP
          21·
          19 hours ago

          It would be better if the login flow said something like

          For security reasons, we ask you to set a new password, please use the “password forgotten” function to gain access again.

          instead of me being puzzled why my password doesn’t work.

          • kewjo@lemmy.world
            4·
            19 hours ago

            except now anyone guessing your password knows when they guess your password right? while that site is safe most users use the same password and any site they use with the same email is now vulnerable.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      2·
      18 hours ago

      If there has been a data leak, they might block your current password because the hash has been leaked

      I’m sure that makes them feel much better, lol.

      • Willem@kutsuya.dev
        2·
        18 hours ago

        The leak doesn’t even need to happen on their site, they could check the password hash against known leaked hashes (from have I been pwned for example) and block it