lily89•2mo ago

Just realized my password manager was saving fake credentials for weeks

My brother pointed out that all my saved logins for a client site were actually from a phishing test email I clicked on last month. Turns out I had been auto-filling dummy credentials into the real site and getting lockout errors for 3 weeks. Has anyone else had their password manager tricked by a test email like that?

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laura_knight542mo ago

Actually those test emails usually don't interact with your real password manager since they're just simulated login pages, not actual saved credentials. The fake fields might have just been auto-filled from your browser's form history instead.

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karenf402mo ago

12 fake logins and zero actual password manager alerts.

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