The Security Notification had randomly locked this account, when no bad extensions, vpn, new location or account sharing was ever used or done.
I have 2 accounts linked to one email, one which has not been locked and this one which is.
When I tried to reset the password to my locked account, it only let me do so on the one which was NOT locked. After that happened I decided to change emails on the unlocked account and try again.
Although an email was originally attached to this account, when I attempted to use it on the security notification, there was no email sent back.
Same rules applied to any action that required the verified email, such as one time code login or the “forgot password” button. An email was never sent back when attempting any of the above mentioned actions.
I attempted to use another email which is linked to other accounts all of which are NOT locked and the email got sent.
This leads me to believe the Security Notification would not only reset your password, but also the email address gets taken off of it, making it impossible to recover the account.
I am unable to confirm this suspicion, because at this time I have no way of accessing this account on any device. Yet miraculously I am not logged out of the dev forum on my phone and can make this report.
Sadly I have no phone number attached to this account so I am unable to confirm if this issue is present with it as well.
System information
Desktop:
- Windows 11 Pro
- CPU: Intel code i7 12700kf
- GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3060
Browsers I attempted this on:
- Google Chrome(both pc and mobile)
- Microsoft Edge(pc)
Expected behavior
I assumed that when I try to login to an account that shared an email with another it would have me select which account to do it on. Likely by having the reset button given by email to then have me pick an account.
The same way one time codes let me pick which account of the ones linked to the email to login to, after the code has been entered and validated.
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