I had a similar story a few years ago, except it changed my birthdate rather than my name. Luckily I looked at the confirmation email for some reason and noticed it. Was a total nightmare to get that changed, although I didn't end up paying in the end.

A few years ago they wouldn’t let me board a flight from SFO to Australia because my visa said I was born in 1921 when my passport didn’t agree. After a good bit of hassle we just had me go and apply for (and pay for) another visa on the electronic application site and this time I noticed that it’s exactly what happened: 1Password (IIRC) used my Visa expiration year for my visa birthday.

I’m lucky that my status meant it was an automatic approval for the second visa!

It's amazing though that they literally gave a visa to some other random person without any issue at all (i.e. not even cross-checking some values in your passport).

> But... what it ALSO did, on a field now well off the top of the screen, was change my wife’s first name to my full name.

I also had a similar experience yesterday, with less expensive purchases fortunately.

The default behavior of 1Password auto-fill is wrong IMO. It should only fill fields after the field that currently has the focus. Not start filling whatever is available from the top of the page.

I had the opposite experience a few years ago: I was a new user of password managers and did not let mine autofill when booking my plane.

The air carrier form was not consistent with my country's name nomenclature: First, Middle, Last instead of First (+second and third) and Last name. I filled it wrongly and had to pay $40 at the check-in counter because there was no passenger registered to my name on the flight.

Tried again with my password manager (Dashlane) a few days later and realized that I should have trusted it. Also, I know that it only fills fields after the selected one, not those before.

Similar.... if the shipping and billing addresses are on the same page, I can't use a password manager. It always fills in both sets.