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I had a similar 1Password moment. I was buying airline tickets; entered my name, my wife’s name, address, declined insurance, declined hotel offer, scroll scrol

I had a similar 1Password moment. I was buying airline tickets; entered my name, my wife’s name, address, declined insurance, declined hotel offer, scroll scroll scroll... Then I let 1Password fill in my payment details, which it did perfectly fine. But... what it ALSO did, on a field now well off the top of the screen, was change my wife’s first name to my full name. I caught this when I got the confirmation email. I called the travel website, and they said since it was within 24 hours I could just cancel the tickets for free, or if I liked I could pay an outrageous fee to the airline to change the name on the ticket. Unsurprisingly I chose the former. So, nor harm done, but if we’d gotten to the airport and my wife couldn’t come on holiday because I didn’t have a ticket for her... could have gone badly. :P

DangerousPie 6y ago
I had a similar story a few years ago, except it changed my birthdate rather than my name. Luckily I looked at the confirmation email for some reason and noticed it. Was a total nightmare to get that changed, although I didn't end up paying in the end.
- DavidMankin 6y ago
  A few years ago they wouldn’t let me board a flight from SFO to Australia because my visa said I was born in 1921 when my passport didn’t agree. After a good bit of hassle we just had me go and apply for (and pay for) another visa on the electronic application site and this time I noticed that it’s exactly what happened: 1Password (IIRC) used my Visa expiration year for my visa birthday. I’m lucky that my status meant it was an automatic approval for the second visa!
  - heavenlyblue 6y ago
    It's amazing though that they literally gave a visa to some other random person without any issue at all (i.e. not even cross-checking some values in your passport).
voiper1 6y ago
Similar.... if the shipping and billing addresses are on the same page, I can't use a password manager. It always fills in both sets.
m000 6y ago
> But... what it ALSO did, on a field now well off the top of the screen, was change my wife’s first name to my full name. I also had a similar experience yesterday, with less expensive purchases fortunately. The default behavior of 1Password auto-fill is wrong IMO. It should only fill fields after the field that currently has the focus. Not start filling whatever is available from the top of the page.
- whnless 6y ago
  I had the opposite experience a few years ago: I was a new user of password managers and did not let mine autofill when booking my plane. The air carrier form was not consistent with my country's name nomenclature: First, Middle, Last instead of First (+second and third) and Last name. I filled it wrongly and had to pay $40 at the check-in counter because there was no passenger registered to my name on the flight. Tried again with my password manager (Dashlane) a few days later and realized that I should have trusted it. Also, I know that it only fills fields after the selected one, not those before.

DangerousPie 6y ago

I had a similar story a few years ago, except it changed my birthdate rather than my name. Luckily I looked at the confirmation email for some reason and noticed it. Was a total nightmare to get that changed, although I didn't end up paying in the end.

DavidMankin 6y ago
A few years ago they wouldn’t let me board a flight from SFO to Australia because my visa said I was born in 1921 when my passport didn’t agree. After a good bit of hassle we just had me go and apply for (and pay for) another visa on the electronic application site and this time I noticed that it’s exactly what happened: 1Password (IIRC) used my Visa expiration year for my visa birthday. I’m lucky that my status meant it was an automatic approval for the second visa!
- heavenlyblue 6y ago
  It's amazing though that they literally gave a visa to some other random person without any issue at all (i.e. not even cross-checking some values in your passport).

voiper1 6y ago

Similar.... if the shipping and billing addresses are on the same page, I can't use a password manager. It always fills in both sets.

m000 6y ago

> But... what it ALSO did, on a field now well off the top of the screen, was change my wife’s first name to my full name. I also had a similar experience yesterday, with less expensive purchases fortunately. The default behavior of 1Password auto-fill is wrong IMO. It should only fill fields after the field that currently has the focus. Not start filling whatever is available from the top of the page.

whnless 6y ago
I had the opposite experience a few years ago: I was a new user of password managers and did not let mine autofill when booking my plane. The air carrier form was not consistent with my country's name nomenclature: First, Middle, Last instead of First (+second and third) and Last name. I filled it wrongly and had to pay $40 at the check-in counter because there was no passenger registered to my name on the flight. Tried again with my password manager (Dashlane) a few days later and realized that I should have trusted it. Also, I know that it only fills fields after the selected one, not those before.