You may find a notice in your account regarding the need to update your encryption key. Rest assured that this does NOT mean that your account has been compromised or is in danger or being compromised. This notice appears on accounts that registered when Bitwarden was using an older encryption scheme.
Bitwarden has moved to a new encryption key implementation that requires a new key to be generated. This new encryption key allows the use of new features in Bitwarden. Normally we are able to handle these type of updates automatically, however, since Bitwarden has no knowledge of your encryption key you must initiate this update yourself.
Updating your encryption key is simple:
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