Your password is available to everyone.
I also do not believe in Santa, the tooth fairy or the words of politicians. I prefer to live in reality where facts rule over fantasy and Humax support have constantly provided nothing butAlways the negative one, but hopefully you will believe it when it is released.
and hot air since this update was first mentioned over a year ago and every expected quarter year since. There is no excuse for it taking this long.
Believe what you want to believe!I also do not believe in Santa, the tooth fairy or the words of politicians. I prefer to live in reality where facts rule over fantasy and Humax support have constantly provided nothing but
I believe you need to sort out why peoples passwords keep being exposed and you may need to remove those rose tinted spectacles to soBelieve what you want to believe!
The latest one is using the same IP address as you are.I believe you need to sort out why peoples passwords keep being exposed and you may need to remove those rose tinted spectacles to so
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Sherlock, now try and see his original post, he is at least the third account I have seen with the password showing as their location and all passwords are similar.Passwords are similar as we have all no doubt used the Google suggested password feature.No
It is so long since I joined that I did not know that feature existed, that also explains why clicking on the password took me to google maps. It would be nice if Brian explained what was going on even if only to warn people rather than behave like Barry on the other site who just totally ignored anything he did not want to answer.
I don't have access to all admin areas, but a simple search online suggests that the issue is likely user error in letting an auto fill service populate various sections during the registration process.
Thank you for at least replying. Is it a new feature that has been recently added as it is only recently that the issue has been noticed. As several people have now made the same "user error" maybe the feature should be removed to prevent the influx of new members that will appear when the other site finally meets its maker from also making a "user error".
When hovering on your pic it gives your location as From Mendip / Mynydd Machen but the OP.s and other recent members gave From as a series of numbers and letters that were the passwords to their account allowing anyone to gain access. (post 7 was not made by the OP) It has been discussed here due to the OP being affected and another previous victim responding here and others replying.
I guessed that.
Yes, because that's what I set up in my forum profile.
Oh really! So somebody or something has confused the "Location" entry box (a required field) with a password box. It does sound like the sort of thing automation might do, perhaps even a robot.
The fact that I have spotted at least 3 members affected recently and never before suggests to me that something in the system has changed rather than Brians "user error" reason, clearly it is an important enough problem to given its own thread and immediate attention by those in power here so feel free to start it off.
Here are a couple of links from 2020 from the XenForo user forums which seem to be describing something similar.
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If the numbers are that high and the issue has been going on for at least 6 years surely it should have been addressed even if you had to remove having a members location as a field to fill in. I would not be at all surprised if this is not the reason for all the bogus members who show as last seen viewing members list, ripe pickings to get peoples details.Here are a couple of links from 2020 from the XenForo user forums which seem to be describing something similar.
XF 2.1 - Password autofills in Profile Location field
When a person registers, I would say about 4 out of every 10 end up with their password in their profile location field without even knowing it. I have the location set to required so it must be conflicting with the browser autofill function or the default layout of the registration page needs...
XF 2.1 - Anyone else have passwords input into the location field?
I imagine it's probably a specific browser/plugin/etc autofilling information, but about one out of every 30 new registrations we have what's obviously a password input into the location field. In the register_macros template, to make it more clear to autocomplete, I've changed this:
I have just approved this account.
I can remove the Require location field from the user Registration setup.