Thunderbird requiring passwords again on all accounts?

[Diggs]

Anybody else get asked for passwords on all their email accounts in Thunderbird today?

 

[LedHed]

Hey, Diggs.
Mine is working fine. No request for a password here.

 

[Larry Sabo]

Not me.

 

[Diggs]

Hmm.....

 

[Markverhyden]

I see those with other clients as well. I stopped responding to those requests. Never know when it's some kind of phishing activity. So I'll either wait or reboot. Never had a problem. Now I have had problems with O365 Exchange, a quick phone call to Appriver and they waived their wand and all was good.

 

[stro]

Yep, with one of my gmail accounts today just out of the blue.

 

[Sky-Knight]

How much of your Thunderbird is attached to Google? Because Google had something broken today: https://downdetector.com/status/gmail

Note, the link shows the last 24 hours based on current time, so if you aren't coming along in the next I'd say 10 hours or so, you won't see the big ugly bell curve of broken. And while it looks "fixed", my Outlook still isn't syncing correctly, and I can barely get to gmail.com.

 

[Diggs]

It started with my Gmail account and then the other 5 email accounts from my local ISP (Charter) also requested. I didn't give them the passwords and now this morning all appears to be fine. Again, things that make ya go hmmm.....

 

[Diggs]

Seems it was a bit bigger than I thought. The plot thickens -

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-02/did-government-just-test-internet-kill-switch