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I nearly lost my google account that way. I gave a nonsense answer totally unrelated to the question as I knew I would never forget my password. Was in a diffe
by senorjazz 9y ago
I nearly lost my google account that way. I gave a nonsense answer totally unrelated to the question as I knew I would never forget my password.
Was in a different country, got locked out, had to give my security question answer.... oh dear. After about 3 months occasionally sitting down and just trying out random things I meant have entered I managed to get it back.
- testplzignore 9y agoI've lost an account on another service this way. They did a forced password reset. To set a new password, you had to go through the forgot password flow, receive the email, and then answer the security questions. You would think that if the passwords were compromised, the (probably plain text) security questions were certainly compromised.