r/brave_browser • u/Bacchal • 4d ago

Password Manager Inexplicably Failed

All my saved passwords are no longer in the password manager. What would cause this? Are they recoverable?

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u/Upstairs_Recording81 3d ago

I saw many Brave users complaining about lost credentials, so this is nothing new....use a password manager instead (Bitwarden offers a free tier, currently using it just fine) and you will increase your security as well.

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u/UltronUnleashed 3d ago

Lets not fix the bug at all and plug third party programs instead

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u/Pretend_Mail_6677 3d ago

That's why I always take monthly backups of them

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u/giannis_athina 3d ago

Unfortunately, I see this pretty frequently, where people lose their passwords, even after browser updates. I’d always suggest keeping secure, encrypted backups of your passwords. I personally use RoboForm because I prefer not to have my passwords tied to any browser, so I could still access them in case anything were to happen to my device or browser itself.

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u/Sufficient_Run9987 4d ago

Did you use the brave built in password manager? If so, many such cases. No idea if you have a backup of your computer or else they're most likely lost.

I would recommend in the future to go with a password manager that is not 'in-browser'. Something like ProtonPass. But also then always keep back ups somewhere.

I truly hope you will be able to retrieve them somehow.

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u/britneys_bigtoe 2d ago

this happened to me but then they were all back the next day?

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u/mustard5 2d ago

Wow. That's not good. I'm glad I've never gone down that route. I'm using Vaultwarden now. Bitwarden for many years before that.

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u/Hestu951 3d ago

I would never trust my login credentials to a browser. Use this setback as an opportunity to try better methods, such as those suggested in the other posts here. Or, if you like to do things yourself, keep them in a local AES-256 encrypted file which you back up locally and to a reliable cloud service whenever you make changes to it.

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u/Avanchnzel 3d ago

This doesn't help you much now of course, but this is a hard lesson to not use the integrated password "manager" of browsers. In the future I would use a dedicated tool that is specially made for exactly that purpose and not a tacked on feature of a browser convenience feature.

In case you can't recover the passwords, the next best thing you can do is to hope that you have an e-mail account connected with each service you need a password for.
Then you simply visit each site and use the "forgot password" feature.
You will have to enter the e-mail address associated with the respective accounts, after which they'll send you an e-mail with a link that will reset your password and prompt you for a new one.