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Sunday, September 25th, 2022 4:31 PM

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Xfinity keeps making me reset my account password once a week

For the past 4 weeks, every weekend, I wake up in the morning to my email login not working and making me reset my password. This *always* happens between 12:07 and 12:08 AM when I am sleeping, so it's not anything I'm doing. I go through the reset (I'm running out of passwords that I can remember!), send a code to my alternate email account, and use that code to reset. Only then can I see my email, where Xfinity has kindly emailed me two error messages, which of course I wasn't able to see previously because they had logged me out of my Xfinity account! ("Your password is all set. You've successfully reset the Xfinity password", followed within 15 seconds by "Please reset your Xfinity password").
Interestingly (or maybe not?) whenever this happens, text messages to me aren't received until 8-36 hours later when I get deluged by the backed up messages. I can, however, send texts which the recipient later confirmed.
 
 One other clue(?) is that the first time I called CS about the text messages, the "ambassador" instructed me to reset my network connections on my phone. That didn't help, but since then I have a persistent message on my notification bar that "SIM card is not supported". I got the phone, the SIM card and the mobile service all from Xfinity, and everything worked fine up until a month ago. Pixel 6, Android 13.
 
Yes, I have called Support, who transferred me to CSA, who then told me they would escalate the issue, and that the next tier would call or text me (not that I could receive texts!).  I'm just wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone? And if anyone has managed to resolve it? Thanks. (And if I chose the wrong category for this, oops; none sounded quite right but at least this one mentioned accessibility).
 

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3 years ago

The concern is not "Accessibility / Disability" help related. Thread moved here to the proper help section, and for greater exposure to the Comcast corporate employees (The Digital Care Team) for assistance. 

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3 years ago

By reaching out to our Customer Security Assurance Team, you have reached an expert team that will be able to determine what and why it is happening. I will be happy to follow up with you, here, in a couple of days too.  

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@XfinityKimberlyB​  I know the security folks are best able to deal with this. I was just kinda hoping someone would say they experienced the same thing and it was a quick fix and never occurred again because this issue is getting annoying (and every time it happened I thought oh now, it won't happen again, but it finally convinced me that yes, it would). I appreciate your following up, so that my issue isn't dropped. Thanks for the reply!

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That is what we are here for, and we will monitor this until we get your confirmation things have been cleared up. We appreciate you coming here for help. You'll hear from us again as promised. 

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So far, has the issue you have experienced been resolved? Has "CSA" reached back out to you regarding escalating this issue? 

I no longer work for Comcast.

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It's been a week now and I have not heard back from anyone. I don't know if the issue has been resolved, since so far it's been between 6-9 days between occurrences, and the weekend is young. 

How long does a response usually take from the security team?

Thanks for checking.

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No worries there! I apologize that this is taking that long. With regard to response times it does varies.  Have you tried reaching back out to the CSA team?

I no longer work for Comcast. 

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2 years ago

Just had this happen at 11:15 pm tonight. Reset the password. I have *NO* idea what could have caused this.

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2 years ago

In case anyone is wondering, this is STILL going on, every one to two weeks. CSA recommended that I enable 2FA to dissuade "whoever" was trying to break in. It's enabled and that didn't work. I have never gotten a notification/code that corresponds with the 'your password is set' middle of the night message. Their other suggestion was to change my email address, which is just too inconvenient. (I just got an email from my retirement account about an issue, and I'd never have gotten that if I'd changed my email address because I forgot they even had it).  At this point, if I have to change my email address, it might not be to an xfinity one.

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I know this is extremely aggravating, @LurkerLee. Our experts within the Customer Security Assurance Team are definitely the right direction to work with to get this issue resolved. As you have been continuing to receive the prompts and obviously the issue is still not resolved, have you re-reached out to that expert team? 

I would also like to take a look at the specifics on the account preference settings for you. Will you please send our team a direct message with your full name and full address?
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To send a "Direct Message" message:
• Click "Sign In" if necessary
• Click the "Direct Message" icon
• Click the "New message" (pencil and paper) icon
• Type "Xfinity Support" in the "To:" line and select "Xfinity Support" from the drop-down list which appears. The "Xfinity Support" graphic replaces the "To:" line
• Type your message in the text area near the bottom of the window
• Press Enter to send it

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