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Ask HN: Anyone else get a HN password reset email this morning?
Just seeing if it's a bug, or if someone is trying to hack my account.
- lutusp 14y agoDid you respond to the e-mail? One way to find out if it's a phishing attempt is to ignore the e-mail and try to log onto your HN account with your usual password. If your password isn't changed, then chances are the e-mail is a phishing scam to try to get you to go to a copy of the HN site and enter your old password, after which you lose control of your account.
- ljf 14y agoCheers - there were no links in the email, just: New Hacker News pw: fqvXXXXX (not the pass they sent) On Chrome I remained logged in, so I tried IE as I'm not logged in there, and yes I needed to use the password they sent. I've changed it again now. I guess either someone was trying to hack me, or they mistakenly thought my account was theirs. Be interesting to see if this continues.
- duiker101 14y agoNo, stay on alert.
- chaitanyapandit 14y agoI found one bug though, if you enter a wrong password against someone's username a few times and then click the "Forgot password" link, the user's current password gets invalidated. And it usually takes more than 5 min for the new password email to appear, sometimes even more.
- lucb1e 14y agoNot for me