New checkup facility for Google password: A New Chrome Extension Alerts hacked Logins
Posted on: 09/Sep/2019 2:05:36 PM
Along with the stupendous technology advancement witnessed today, there are some side-effects on the negative side as well! Yes! Data breaches are a sad truth of the modern Web!
Nowadays, we read and hear a lot about some new hack or breach that may have leaked your data. Savvy Internet users use password managers or don`t reuse passwords, but the fact is that a solid majority of Internet users are still way behind the curve on these learnings!
Just in order to the rescue of the above large majority, today (Tuesday, 9th September), Google revealed in a blog post that the new Password Checkup Chrome extension is now live on the Chrome Web Store. This can be downloaded by anyone.
This extension alerts users when they enter a compromised username and password on a website. The extension will alert them that the login information has been compromised and suggests a password change.
The extension is particularly useful for users, who can`t regularly keep track of news about data breaches and hacks or go to specific websites to check whether their account details have been compromised or not.
Google further informed that it has built the Password Checkup with privacy concerns of sharing your account details with anyone, including Google, in mind. It notes that no one, including Google, will know about your account information.
In its blog on this issue, Google wrote: “We built Password Checkup so that no one, including Google, can learn your account details. To do this, we developed privacy-protecting techniques with the help of cryptography researchers at both Google and Stanford University”.
Google further revealed that the Cross Account Protection measure that will make sure the apps and websites where you are using your Google account credentials to sign in is not compromised in case the attacker finds a way into your Google account.
It is the first time the company is improving the security of Google sign-in for third-party platforms while the Google account itself has had added protections to deal with attackers and malicious parties,
Thus, when your Google account is compromised, Google will notify the apps and websites where you have used your Google credentials about the breach so that they can secure your account on their platform.
