Big Sur and Data Leak?

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Big Sur and Data Leak?

I just did the upgrade on the MacBook Pro to Big Sur. Immediately after the download when I go to any of my normal sites with log ins I get the message: "This password has been seen in a data leak and should be changed to a strong password." Then it says Safari can create a strong password for me. Would you like to change your password for (Site XYZ)? And then can click on Chance Password or Not Now. I clicked on Not Now. This is popping up at each site where I have a log in. Is this a legitimate data leak or a scam? And if it is how do I get read of the popup message? Any help is appreciated.

MacBook Pro 15″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Jan 25, 2021 4:40 PM

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westred

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Feb 27, 2021 7:21 PM in response to melodyfromredfield

I had this issue today and called apple support. I also entered a community case on this (but can't find it). The support person told me that this functionality was added in Big Sur 11.0.1. (look here)https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211896

It is not a scam (but be careful anyway).

You can see this information by looking in Preferences under Safari, then click on passwords. You will need to unlock to see the passwords. When you look at the list, you can see a yellow triangle with an exclamation next to the passwords that Safari has flagged. I'm not quite sure what Apple wants us to do here but you can delete from the list or go to the webpage and reset the password. Some of the details I see are saying that my password is too easy or that it was used more than once.

Hopefully this helps and thanks to Apple support for explaining, but maybe not so much to the designers and coders of this since it looks like a scam.

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Jan 25, 2021 4:41 PM in response to melodyfromredfield

Sorry should be Change Password, not Chance Password.

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