Hi, I just intalled Bitwarden on Linux and also setup an account online. I enter a test account and password and save it. Just to test the product. However, I edit it again, and set the same password and email. This time when I save, Google reports the password was in a data compromise / breach…

@BWTom Welcome to the forum! Was the password randomly generated (e.g., a random 4-word passphrase , which is the best-practice recommendation for how to create a Bitwarden master password)? Did you use the HaveUBeenPwned Password Check tool to see if they confirm that the password in question has …

Ty. I should clarify. It’s randomly generated however manually. Something akin to, for example: Th1$Is@D3centPas$*(#_ for the master password. That one is fine and no complains get raised. But when I add a secret to the vault, on first save it’s fine. But if I edit and save again, then it sa…

[image] BWTom: I’ll run a few more tests. Repeat your own “Steps to Reproduce”, but in Step 4, instead of trying to create a password yourself, click the :arrows_counterclockwise: icon: [image] Ensure that your password generator options have been set up as shown below (to generate a passw…

Logged back into my Google account before I proceeded. Then did all this, and in step #4 generated a new 14 length pass including the special characters and clicked the ‘check-circle’ / ‘check-box’ that the password was never used and it was never used. Clicked ‘Save’ to take the new password and …

Interesting. So we learn two thing: Google’s password manager spies on you. Google’s password manager routinely produces false positives when warning about breaches (perhaps due to a bug, perhaps as a deliberate scare tactic). Either one of these on its own should be sufficient reason to abandon…

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Google reports password/email was in a breach. The pass is brand new and email has rarely been used anywhere

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