I suppose it was something different in my case.
While I did not take a screenshot, I coped the error message:
> Dear user as per our security policy your password has been expired.
> Please click below on Forgot Password to set a new one.
This sounds deliberate.
In contrast to the occasional login issues I had as well.
As I heard there was a "failure event" on Monday affecting Amazon servers, with a lot of other services (like Atlassian, Bitbucket, etc.) being offline as a result. Perhaps the issue wormed it's way through other services, due to the splended idea of "single-point-of-failure" cloud services ...
And instead of opening another thread, I'd like to comment here on this "password expiration" issue here.
While a company is usually a hierarchical structure with top-down rules, a community like this forum is not.
Thus, trying to impose internal rules on non-employees will not be well received.
Due to my own "sovereignity policy" I will not tolerate another forced password change. There are other interesting pastime activities that can make up for the time I spend here.
Last year, the community of one of ST's competitors wanted me to enter random code to "confirm my account" every few month before allowing me to login again. They never bothered to authenticate themselves, so I dropped the account at the third attempt.
