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"MyFreeola - new password security check"

When logging into the newly updated MyFreeola I see a warning notification about my password strength:

Important Information
Your password, used to log in to My Freeola, our online ordering system and our interactive services such as cheats and walkthroughs, is a little on the weak side.
Please update it to something more secure.

Following the link to change the password the "New Password" field is already completed ('blobed' out). I think that should be blank?

If I start to change my password by using the current one which is a mix of letters, numerals and special characters the page shows this as a "STRONG" password.

I'm wondering why the system thinks it's strong here but also suggests it needs strengthening?

Interestingly on another Freeola account which is shorter and only uses letters (no numbers or special characters) I don't see the warning?!

Rather than raise a Support Ticket I thought I would try a forum post :¬)
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Thanks Eccles. It was the email verification alert, which has now disappeared since you posted.

Thanks DL.

It's not clear exactly what is confusing you. As far as I can tell from your message you:

1. Logged into your account.
2. Saw the alert on the dashboard telling you that your current password is a little weak and advising you to update it.
2. Went through the password change process, this cleared the alert on the MyFreeola dashboard.
....
You then said " I'm still getting 'Alert Notifications' in MyFreeola regarding email verification ", what do you mean by this? email verification is nothing to do with your account password.
I'm assuming after changing your password you want to the contact details page in your MyFeeola account and saw that your login email address was showing as 'unverified', so went through the process of verifying it? I can see no 'alerts' showing in your account.

Eccles wrote:
Hmmm... wrote:
[i]
Is this for real this time? :¬)

Yep, time to change your password from '123456' Hmmm... :)
Also a few other changes tucked away, such as 2 factor authentication (opt-in), e-mail forwarding verification and a support PIN.[/i]

Changed my password as requested by Freeola yesterday and had a confirmation email. I'm still getting 'Alert Notifications' in MyFreeola regarding email verification ... reponded, yet again, this afternoon and was promised a verification email again! No email verification has arrived ... yet it seems I'm still good to go, hey ho!

Hmmm... wrote:

Is this for real this time? :¬)

Yep, time to change your password from '123456' Hmmm... :)
Also a few other changes tucked away, such as 2 factor authentication (opt-in), e-mail forwarding verification and a support PIN.

Hmmm... wrote:
Hmmm... wrote:
[i]When logging into the newly updated MyFreeola I see a warning notification about my password strength...



Is this for real this time? :¬)
[/i]

I did mention this here recently! OK, wrong thread but even so ...

Hmmm... wrote:
When logging into the newly updated MyFreeola I see a warning notification about my password strength...



Is this for real this time? :¬)

[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Thanks @ Hmmm

You'll be fine DL, it was just a message suggesting a change not forcing anything.


[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Eccles wrote:
Hi,

Sorry about that! You can ignore it for now, it looks like a small update went live when it shouldn't have done.
The bit to update your password is the old/current page and doesn't have autocomplete turned off on the password fields so the browser may pre-fill it.

So if I now log out ... will I be able to log in using my original login details or requested to produce a new login?

Thanks @Eccles.

[s]Hmmm...[/s]