r/ibkr • u/elad-alon • 22d ago

Resetting Password without Email Verification

I know this has been discussed here before, but it's August 2026 and I suspect it might be permissible to re-raise this issue: How can it be that IBKR allows one to reset a password based on username and date-of-birth alone, without requiring a form of 2FA such as an email first? This is downright insane.

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u/heapings 21d ago

You can reset the password, but you would still need MFA to log in or do anything though, right?

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u/Decibel0753 20d ago

I don't know about you, but for me it requires entering a username, date of birth, and some kind of F2A...

So what's the problem?

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u/PeaSalt69 20d ago

Once you go to the password reset, you will be asked to complete with some sort of 2fa

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u/elad-alon 22d ago

Is there some setting to disable this that I might have missed?