Google’s new Password checkup extension checks for leaked credentials and informs whether they have been leaked before in a data breach.
In 2019, more than 20 million unique passwords among other credentials were leaked and available online for sale. This fact represents only one year since the advent of the internet and over the years although security has clearly increased, so have attacks.
Earlier if you happened to hear of such a breach, you would have to use an online service like Have I Been Pwned? to check if your credentials were a part of those. And that too for the security-conscious lot out there, many of us never did the effort to make even that very check.
But luckily, Google has stepped in for us with a new tool that automatically takes the encrypted login credentials that we enter and verifies if they may have been compromised by cross-checking from a central database.
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The tool developed with the help of Stanford cryptography researchers is available through a Password checkup extension on Chrome Web Store and notifies users whenever it finds that the user has entered username or password that has been leaked before in a data breach.
As all credentials are checked in encrypted form in real-time, you can rest assur ..
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