Google Offers Assistance With Hacked Passwords

By: Team WTI | Date: August 16, 2019

Categories: Security,

Tags: Chrome, Google, Hacked Passwords,

It seems like our “secure” information is constantly being hacked, and if you’re like most people, you probably use the same login information for a variety of sites. It may be hard to remember what sites have been hacked and which credentials have been compromised. Have you ever dealt with hacked passwords?

If you are one of the over 300 million users of the Chrome browser, Google has given you a tool to manage your hacked passwords.

Free Password Checkup Extension

You can download the Chrome extension HERE. Once you have the extension installed on your browser, it will run in the background, checking the logins that you use. If the credentials you use match any of the 4 billion compromised logins in the Google database, a red warning box will appear.

The warning states “Password Checkup detected that your password for [website] is no longer safe due to a data breach. You should change your password now.” If a new breach occurs, the extension will notify you if any our your passwords were compromised when you log into Chrome. If this is the case, you will get a list of the compromised sites and you can click on them to update your login information.

The extension is encrypted, so no one, including Google, can see the data that you enter.

From the Google website:

“Password Checkup was built with privacy in mind. It never reports any identifying information about your accounts, passwords, or device. We do report anonymous information about the number of lookups that surface an unsafe credential, whether an alert leads to a password change and the domain involved for improving site coverage.”

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