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Change At-Risk Passwords

If you see a Review and change at-risk passwords or a Your password is at-risk, update it now banner, you have a password in your vault that should be replaced with something stronger. This banner is appearing to you for one of two reasons:

  • The administrative team for your organization has identified a weak, re-used, or exposed password and requires you to update it, you may also receive an email informing you of this. Browser extensions will report in the Vaults view when your admin team requires you to update a password.

  • As a Premium user, a weak, re-used, or exposed password has been automatically identified by underlying vault health reporting and suggested by Bitwarden as an important opportunity to improve your security hygiene. Browser extensions, desktop apps, and the web app will report in the Item view when a particular password should be improved.

Change an at-risk password

In your browser extension, click the banner and use the Change button for each at-risk password to replace a weak, re-used, or exposed password with a strong new one. In most cases, the browser extension will guide you directly to that service's "Change password" page. Remember that:

  • You must change the password within the website's "Change password" form as well as within Bitwarden.

  • You should use the password generator to create a strong and unique new password.