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Google Chrome caching Login by IP?

  • 09-09-2008 9:31am
    #1
    ZeRoY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    Near 100% its Chrome doing this, here is what happened to me this morning in the office.

    I installed Chrome only a few days ago and went this morning on a Gaming site (www.codutility.com) where i have a login. I never went on that site using Chrome and so i was expecting to have to login, save password, etc... Instead, i find myself logged in as someone else (not my username)! I happen to know who this someone else is since is a work colleague! problem, he is on holidays and would not have gone near my PC anyway.

    I was fully logged in as him and could see his account details, etc...The only explanation i can come up with so far is that Chrome caches login details based on IP addresses but doesnt seem to do it locally! The only common point here with this colleague is obviously our Public IP address.

    I took off Google Chrome off my work machine now. I have never seen anything like this before happening, it looks to be a serious security breach if it appears true....


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Or, the badly programmed site sees a connection from the same IP and assaigns it to a currently open session.


  • #3
    ZeRoY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 959 ✭✭✭ZeRoY


    aidan_walsh wrote: »
    Or, the badly programmed site sees a connection from the same IP and assaigns it to a currently open session.

    Hopefully yes - I had however another weird login incident yesterday using an internal web based software thsi time, I was resetting a password for a user (from Chrome again) and after logging off could not get back in the system. On check, my account had been replaced by the user's one!

    Again, i have never came accross such login issues before with FF or IE

    Time will tell us :)


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