New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: My WiFi password changed over night
Ask HN: My WiFi password changed over night
5 by JaggerJo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
This morning I woke up to notice something strange. My internet radio alarm was not playing and instead wanted me to setup a internet connection. Did not really think about it - because radios usually have crappy software and a short power outage could have caused it was my thought. Then I realised that I can't stream music to my Sonos speakers while still in bed. Also just thought Spotify probably has some issues (happened before). When I finally tried to use my computer I realised that all my devices aren't connected to my wifi anymore. It prompts with an 'invalid password' dialog - and wanted me to enter the password. My router is a Ubiquity Dream Machine (not pro) and I use their cloud account. I checked what was put there as the password and it's an old password from me. (this shocked me - I did not change it.) How could this have happened? Are there things I should do? Other thoughts I had: - Someone is trying to get my wifi credentials by cloning my SSID name. (unplugged my AP and the network disappeared so I guess that a not the case.) - Ubiquity screwed up an update. (Nope - works properly after changing the password back) - Ubiquity somehow restored an old version (I might have had that password as the wifi password before. But this was a year ago.) Actions I have taken: - changed unify account password - checked https://ift.tt/1l33Xi1 my mail address is included in one breach.
5 by JaggerJo | 1 comments on Hacker News.
This morning I woke up to notice something strange. My internet radio alarm was not playing and instead wanted me to setup a internet connection. Did not really think about it - because radios usually have crappy software and a short power outage could have caused it was my thought. Then I realised that I can't stream music to my Sonos speakers while still in bed. Also just thought Spotify probably has some issues (happened before). When I finally tried to use my computer I realised that all my devices aren't connected to my wifi anymore. It prompts with an 'invalid password' dialog - and wanted me to enter the password. My router is a Ubiquity Dream Machine (not pro) and I use their cloud account. I checked what was put there as the password and it's an old password from me. (this shocked me - I did not change it.) How could this have happened? Are there things I should do? Other thoughts I had: - Someone is trying to get my wifi credentials by cloning my SSID name. (unplugged my AP and the network disappeared so I guess that a not the case.) - Ubiquity screwed up an update. (Nope - works properly after changing the password back) - Ubiquity somehow restored an old version (I might have had that password as the wifi password before. But this was a year ago.) Actions I have taken: - changed unify account password - checked https://ift.tt/1l33Xi1 my mail address is included in one breach.
