Password Update
4 min
The passwordUpdate call is intended to retrieve an Account Protection Score when a user updates their password following a password reset on your website.
Timing
The API call should come to the Interceptas Platform:
- After a user attempts to reset their password.
- After they pass error handling, and you retrieve their account details, IP Address, and User Agent.
- Before you send the result of their request.
Note: This call is not meant to occur after a user changes their password while authenticated. Use the accountUpdate call for that instance.
Flow

Password Update flow
- User gets an email to reset their password and lands on the reset password page.
- User enters their new password.
- Client processes frontend validation to ensure all fields are filled in properly.
- Client retrieves account information, IP, and user agent.
- Client's backend server calls Accertify.
- Accertify consolidates data and returns a score.
- Client determines appropriate action for passwordUpdate.
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