Purdue Mathematics IT

No. Never type your password into an email.

For more information see Is this a real email?.

“Phishing” is an attempt to criminally and fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and other sensitive information, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity (from Wikipedia).

Neither ITaP nor Math IT will ever ask you to reveal your password in an e-mail response, or over the phone, or in person. They will never send you a URL in an e-mail to click on that will ask you for your password; if necessary, they will give you instructions on how to get to a certain web page from the Math department home page or the Purdue home page. Additionally, neither ITAP nor Math IT will ever ask for any sensitive information (your date of birth, your Social Security Number, etc.).

Please feel free to email helpdesk@math.purdue.edu if you’re wondering about a specific email; however, if you have any suspicions about an email, it’s probably spam.

Have you ever forgotten your math password? Has your math password ever been reset due to that 120 day limit?

Instead of waiting for Math IT to reset a forgotten or unknown password, you can now reset it yourself!

All that’s required is that you provide the answers to some questions now. Later, when you wish to reset your math password, you’ll be asked those same questions and will need to provide the exact same answers.

1. Pick and answer the questions on this page: https://www.math.purdue.edu/mathnet/securitychallengequestions/
2. Forget your password.
3. Follow the instructions on this page: https://www.math.purdue.edu/resources/resetpassword to reset your password.