Security & access: Lack of customer support when locked out
Customers face significant challenges with inadequate and unresponsive customer support, particularly when dealing with account access issues. This leads to frustration and prolonged difficulties in resolving problems, as users struggle to find effective assistance.
5 people in 5 posts across 2 sources · demand low, pain moderate, competition low
The pain
shares of 5 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 5 people using LastPass Password Manager and Microsoft Authenticator
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 100% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (44/100)
- Since
- 12 Aug 2025 → 10 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- LastPass Password Manager and Microsoft Authenticator
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint5100%
Sources
5 signals · 2 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…upport person is saying there was never an account under that email?? I sure hope no one with those glowing reviews of this app ever deals with being locked out of their account because their customer support (good luck trying to find it in the first place) is awful.. one of the worst.
Strong complaint…son I could find. I tried to reset and everything but nothing worked. I then spent 2 hours going round in circles, calling customer service, and having AI tell me to go online and get help which I cant as I cant log in to be able to do this, as my authenticator is broken. I tried every choice on the phone to talk to a…
Strong complaint…their recovery key is on the phone you originally downloaded the app. Terrible customer service don’t recommend for anyone
Microsoft Authenticator — Problems constantly Mary just satisfied cannot get in touch with customer service over the phone
…Poor Chinese support Poor Chinese support when importing from 1pass. Poor customer service type, once you created a type you cannot modify the type. Web UI is poor in general. Should learn from 1pass
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Why did it move?
Score 42.2 → 42.3 · 24 Sept 2026, 21:00 → 22:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Security & access: Lack of customer support when locked out a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 5 different people described it independently, in 5 mentions, the earliest from 12 Aug 2025 and the most recent from 10 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 63/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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