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Forced to reset my password
Why does T Mobile's website force you to reset your password every couple of months!? When banking institutions who actually MANAGE YOUR MONEY leave you in peace, it's crazy for a phone compa...
Well other than for security reasons it's just good practice. With as many Wireless account as there are being hacked into with people's information being stolen and accounts being changed it's somewhat important to have an updated password as well as account verification PIN numbers.
nonetheless this is a standard industry practice and there is no way to opt out of it.
T-mobile is way behind the times on this. It used to be best practice to change your password every few months to prevent someone from being able to repeatedly try to log in as you, with a new password guess each time. Now, it's considered significantly more risky to force a password change frequently because it increases the risk that people will write the password down somewhere like a notepad near the keyboard or a stickynote in the wallet. Unfortunately, T-Mobile's idea of security is to irritate enough customers that they leave for other providers, thus reducing their risk.
