Has anyone had strange passwords show up in Apple Passwords on all devices after iOS 16.4.1?

I managed to get rid of these strange log in’s by deleting them in Key Chain Access App on my MacBook Air.

Same thing on my devices.

…the easiest fix for me was to go into “Passwords” in Settings on iPhone. Pick the first 4 letters of one of the crazy user names, like “MiEE…” do a search, then “Edit”, select all (by selecting first item, hold, pull down through list), and delete.

Shame on you APPLE!!! You should address this issue!

PasswordsIdontknow wrote:

I had a gmail password pop up as a suggestion to a Gmail account I have never seen and is shown in my password prompts below the text line. It makes no sense. I’m worried it’s a hack

If you have concern for the security of any online account, Gmail or otherwise, you would be best advised to change the password for the relevant account - and update your saved Passwords as appropriate.

Where you are able to do so, you should always enable two-factor authentication (2FA) - as doing so will significantly reduce opportunities for an account to be accessed by anyone other than you.

For email, be aware that many email providers* now require the use of App Specific Passwords when accessing mail over IMAP or POP3. If this applies to your email account, you will need to generate (or change) a unique password for your iPad email account - that will intentionally differ from your normal Account Password. As such, even if the password used to access email is compromised, the associated account itself remains inaccessible.

(*) As examples - AOL, Yahoo, Google, Microsoft all use App Specific Passwords when using anything other than their own email client Apps.

If you need to generate an App Specific Password, you’ll need to log-in to your Mail Providers account management webpage - using a web browser - and generate the Password from the appropriate account security page.

More information about AOL’s App Specific Passwords can be found here:

https://help.aol.com/articles/allow-apps-that-use-less-secure-sign-in?guccounter=1

For Yahoo, more information can be found here:

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN27791.html

For Gmail:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185833?hl=en-GB

Microsoft:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/using-app-passwords-with-apps-that-don-t-support-two-step-verification-5896ed9b-4263-e681-128a-a6f2979a7944

Same problem here. Only old stored username and passwords have been garbled in the same way as you describe.

As the credentials are synchronized with all my apple devices through iCloud, all devices show the same data corruption.

I only noticed it this morning, but the problem could be older. What I did was

A few days ago I

1. upgrade to 14.2.1

The last two days I

1. successfully tested a usb security token (winkeo from neowave, not yubikey)
2. installed libfido2 with brew to set the key's PIN as there is no other way to do this with macOS
3. installed lsusb with brew
4. installed openssh with brew to test ssh authentication with the key as Apple's ssh doesn't support it

I use another browser most of the time. It thus don't now exactly when the usernames and passwords where changed. The problem only affects safari and this is what I use to browse with the iPad. This is how I discovered the problem. Not sure which one of the above operations could have caused the problem.

All usernames and passwords have the exact same prefix string "MEIEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEwFAYIKoZ".

Has this mysterious “password” appeared in your Apple Keychain (i.e., your saved passwords that can be accessed from iPad settings) - or your Norton password manager App?

If the latter, you’ll need to seek assistance from Norton - the third-party App Developer.

I have the exact same issue. I am on iOS 16.5 and I never installed Norton or used it on my iPhone 12 but I still got a lot of password log ins with the exact same description you’ve stated (user name is 10 or 12 digits & password is combo of over 100 letters, symbols, numbers and password is the same on all devices with the same date as added on 03/29/2020. Whenever I delete one it reappears whenever I reopen the passwords with FaceID. I’m really concerned this is some sort of virus or compromise, especially with my passwords and log ins. I hope someone has an answer or explanation.

Me too only mine were added on my Iphone 12 Pro Max 25/05/2023! I've been on the phone with Apple support for hours, so far they didn't resolve a thing. One of their operators made me even erase the original log ins and passwords, told me to do a back up and now I ended up without log ins that I had for years and which I cannot restore anymore. I have only left these long fake log ins which may be as you said a sort of virus or compromise. Did any of you in the meantime resolve anything? Your answer or help is appreciated.

I posted the same issue. I’ll have random emails and logins like what you show above. When I try to delete these, they reappear a short time later. ??? It almost appears like it’s something that is corrupted.

Same issue here. The usernames and passwords appear on all of my apple devices. When I delete them, they reappear a short time later. For example:

MDoEEPgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEwFAYIKoZIhvcNAwcECDonIPfKl8TpBBAPNw1JPALNnRYq+Lp20sl7

Same problem. I have dozens of these and they all seem to have been last "updated" on either 8/9/23 or 8/27/23. Now in the process of deleting all of them.

I had a gmail password pop up as a suggestion to a Gmail account I have never seen and is shown in my password prompts below the text line. It makes no sense. I’m worried it’s a hack

Me too only mine were added on my Iphone 12 Pro Max 25/05/2023! I've been on the phone with Apple support for hours, so far they didn't resolve a thing. One of their operators made me even erase the original log ins and passwords, told me to do a back up and now I ended up without log ins that I had for years and which I cannot restore anymore. I have only left these long fake log ins which may be as you said a sort of virus or compromise. Did any of you in the meantime resolve anything? Your answer or help is appreciated.

Me too only mine were added on my Iphone 12 Pro Max 25/05/2023! I've been on the phone with Apple support for hours, so far they didn't resolve a thing. One of their operators made me even erase the original log ins and passwords, told me to do a back up and now I ended up without log ins that I had for years and which I cannot restore anymore. I have only left these long fake log ins which may be as you said a sort of virus or compromise. Did any of you in the meantime resolve anything? Your answer or help is appreciated.

I've been struggling with this, too! My long crazy passwords are only on my phone.

Keychain on my mac is still fine, and I could export that information so I don't lose all my saved pw information.

But any thoughts on how to get those off my iphone? I have icloud for keychain/passwords shut off on my phone hoping that will avoid it from corrupting my mac keychain.

Really appreciate any thoughts on this!

This has happened to me twice and it seems to be linked to updating my Mac OS. Could that be? My Mac keychain is fine. It’s only my phone that gets these.

Anyone know more about this annoying weird thing?