Firefox master password stopped working momentarily
I use Firefox 56 on Linux Mint, I've had the same master password for sometime and it protects all my saved logins (as far as I understand this should be safe).
Just now, momentarily (and with careful checking and multiple attempts, no caps lock or any of that, it simply didn't work), the master password ceased to work. After re-starting the computer it worked again as if nothing happened. This has never happened before.
However, simultaneously I got an email saying I'd asked for a password reset on an old twitter account that has been lying idle for many years -- but weirdly enough, was not stored in my saved passwords either. That bit could be coincidence, but I have never had a password reset email from any old accounts of anything, ever. In fact, I've never even had one on any of my current accounts which are in use (unless I asked for it).
This seems quite suspicious all-in-all... but I can't figure out how I could have been compromised (even if I have been)... is it possible a site could have managed to do something?
Any thoughts?
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Classic, I have reproduced the error and solved the issue! Phew!
And yes, classic human error. I had VLC open and I have hotkeys configured in the background for transcription work which hi-jacks a few of my keys, one of which is in my master password and hence typing it in didn't work because that key skipped.
Still, that doesn't really explain the password reset email, but that's not a Mozilla problem (and remains a massive coincidence!).
Thanks!
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Are you sure that the password reset was not a phishing email since you never requested it. Doubt it.
To be in the safe side of things , please : Please use more than 1 scanner as each uses diff tech :
Save your Report and google each before deleting anything as do not want to delete something you need.
Use what ever tools you have available for LInux that scans for Malware.
If need help :
Post in only 1 forum, then wait.
Also :
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Nope, got one false positive for Linux/Ebury (using chrootkit and latterly ClamTK) but my system is (as I'd expect) clean.
This doesn't resolve the fact that the master password categorically stopped working completely and that I had a (non-phishing, genuine) password reset request email at the same time (when I never, ever, get them falsely -- in fact, I've never had one).
Is it possible for the master password to temporarily corrupt but then be reset by the restart? I would have thought not...?
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Classic, I have reproduced the error and solved the issue! Phew!
And yes, classic human error. I had VLC open and I have hotkeys configured in the background for transcription work which hi-jacks a few of my keys, one of which is in my master password and hence typing it in didn't work because that key skipped.
Still, that doesn't really explain the password reset email, but that's not a Mozilla problem (and remains a massive coincidence!).
Thanks!
Yes the email does as all websites never send a password reset with out requesting it. It maybe someone was trying to hack the account and put a password rest in after getting frustrated or as you said it was a long time since use.
I would think that it would reset it self from a session file if there was corruption.
If you could please mark this as Solved with Your answer. Thank You.