Here's a fourth that was actually responsible for me starting to just use generated passwords for those as well. They told me my answer wasn't valid.
According to them, it's impossible for your mothers maiden name to have less than six characters :/
According to them, it's impossible for your mothers maiden name to have less than six characters :/
I decided to log in and change it to a randomly generated secure password. However, they had upgraded their off the shelf software some time over the last 4-5 years to a newer version.
The problem was, on their password change page the "new password" field had a minimum length of 8 characters, however the "OLD password" field also had that exact same requirement.
So I put in:
* Old: 12345
* New: 717&t!1XFCWJWk!q@ut3B
* Confirm: 717&t!1XFCWJWk!q@ut3B
And got an error "your password must be 8 characters or greater".
After swearing a few times, I breakpointed and edited the javascript validation to remove the length requirement and submitted the change again - this time got a server-side error saying the same thing.
I ended up beating it by logging out, clicking "I've forgot my password" and resetting it via email.
You probably broke law there O_O