Can Mikrotik change the access password itself?

Question

System administration

I can not connect to Mikrotik, it says that I am not entering the correct username or password. Could there have been a failure due to which now there are difficulties in accessing its interface?

Answer 1

if the firmware was not updated in time, bad people could change it

Answer 2

Mikrotik itself cannot.

Answer 3

It could have been replaced by a virus. Leaving Mikrotiks without a password is like a girl walking at night in a short skirt and hoping that no one will ... stop her :D

Answer 4

Little information on the problem. The main answer has already been given - no, it cannot.
But what can. Faced four times on different models.
IP goes to 0.0.0.0. Winbox sees the device at the poppy address. At the same time it works without complaints. Everything routes, firewall, switch, no complaints. Login only by poppy and the password is not suitable. Treatment only through flashing firmvari network. At least not through telnet (via makTelnet), no one reached the port.
Once it was connected with a dying memory.

Answer 5

Maybe it's in winbox. The firmware is new, but the winbox is old. Or vice versa.