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by mrzaggy 837 days ago
Password works on THREE other machines, fails completely on ONE.

I was logged in when the outage happened on machine A and phone B - immediately tried to reset password, which took me into the hellish abyss many of us are experiencing now...

This evening - about 18hrs about the event, I fire up machine C - it logs STRAIGHT INTO Messenger. OK... This is something, too scared to open a browser in case that triggers the session disconnect...

So I fire up laptop D - STRAIGHT INTO MESSENGER... OK, open browser, STRAIGHT INTO FB. Log into Google password manager, VISUALLY CHECK password, and it is my last known good password (in use at time of outage).

Fire up iPad E - Straight into Messenger!!! All these machines are on the same network!

Back to Machine A - clear cookies and try to log in, no joy; different browser and try to log in, no joy; try to reset password on this different browser (I might add, I did get a new Change password Token number off this attempt), but no joy; clear cookies and restart, then attempt to log in, no joy!

WHAT THE F?!?!?!?

I initially thought it may have been a 24hr block due to password change attempts? But now not so sure... I've also tried logging in on via Machine A in a VM from a different O/S to see if it may have something to do with it - but again no joy - this environment had NOT been logged in to FB before...

Thoughts????

1 comments

MAC Address being flagged?

But on the flip side, I was able to create a back up profile in a different VM on this machine.....