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Hello,

A General question for Thunderbird and passwords.I am not an expert in security, encryption or programming.

I was trying to access my gmail from chrome. I made 2-3 attempts, but my attempts were unsuccessful.
I went to Thunderbird to check my password in the case where i was incorrect.

I opened the "Saved Logins", I hit "Hide passwords" and I found that my password has been changed...
The password that i found was a long random word with mixed characters/numbers and symbols.

The password that i found in Thunderbird is the following:
1//03IW_23h1DVktCgYIARAAGAMSNwF-L9IrPg8AORg_OAAbYoh3CnJIFqYEZeBge4mLBfOyURWEeZf5dtdXXnZgdWjFtZfN2ck-jnl

The Thunderbird was capable of receiving emails. After the recovery of my gmail account, I found that Gmail did not record any change in my password and i did not receive any message for this change (the random word).

Could you please someone explain to me what was happened?

Thanks

What I have tried:

The Thunderbird was capable of receiving emails. After the recovery of my gmail account, I found that Gmail did not record any change in my password and i did not receive any message for this change (the random word).
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Updated 14-Apr-20 7:38am
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Richard MacCutchan 11-Apr-20 3:39am    
This is not anything to do with programming. You need to logon to your gmail account via a browser and try to change it there.

Most likely the password that you found was the encrypted version of your password.
 
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That looks like it's an "app password", which allows an application to authenticate without using two step verification.

Sign in using App Passwords - Google Account Help[^]
 
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