If you are using Google Chrome, you might already be using the Google password manager. Recently, Google launched a new web tool – Google Password Checkup (earlier available as Password Checkup Chrome extension) which lets you test if your password has been compromised in a recent security breach. It also shows you if you are using the same password on multiple sites and provides a one-click option to update it. Let’s see how to use it.

Follow the steps

1. On your Chrome browser, click on this link
2. Sign in to your primary Google account
3. Click the ‘Check Passwords button’
4. Wait for a few seconds for Google to analyze your saved password

Once done, it’ll show you passwords in 3 categories – compromised, reuse, and weak. That’s which accounts are compromised in data leaks, accounts that have the same password as well as week passwords. There is also an option to change your password in one-click.

It’s important to keep in mind that your passwords are not stored in plain text on Google’s server. Instead, the passwords are stored on your desktop and when it connects to the Internet, they are encrypted. But nothing is ever truly secure. If someone has physical access to your computer or Android, they can easily view saved passwords by going to passwords.google.com and enter the password for your Windows 10 PC or Mac.

In short, while Google password manager has many benefits, like quick registration and easy access on both Android and Web, a better way to manage your saved password is by using a dedicated password manager. They have a different master password then your Windows 10 PC or Mac lock screen code. At techwiser, we recommend password managers like LastPass or 1Password. The former is cloud-based, so you can access your passwords from anywhere on the cloud while the later one works on your local system only.

Google has warned millions of users for password hacking. For this, Google has introduced a new extension for the Chrome browser. This extension is “Password Checkup” available for all users. In this article, you will get the information about –

What is the Google Password Checkup Tool and how to use it?

Using feature, Google will keep a check on user passwords used for login on chrome. If the password used on a site has been compromised, it will prompt warnings. This warning will make the user change the password and secure the account.

Google announced the Password Checkup extension for Chrome in February this year. This was to help keep user’s online accounts safe from hijacking. The tech giant said that whenever you log in to a website with username and passwords. You will be one out of over 4 billion users. Google reported this to be unsafe due to a third-party data breach. Since they launched the extension, over 650,000 people participated in the beta phase. Google scanned and found 316,000 unsafe logins by scanning 21 million usernames and passwords. This count was 1.5% of the logins scanned by the Password Checkup extension.

Google said that users are unaware of the risk by reused and unsafe passwords. The risk when such passwords pose to their financial, government and email accounts is quite high. In fact, the risk is more intense when it comes to shopping websites.

With the help of Google’s password checkup tool, these people can check their password to find out if their password has been hacked or not.

What is Google Password Checkup?

Password checkup is the security extension tools for chrome browser offered by Google. It informs the user if the current passwords have been hacked or at risk?

Are user passwords under Data Bridge and no longer secure?

This tool will give an alert popup to the user if the user’s password is tampered with.

And encourage you to change your password. With this, over 4 million people can change their password, whose username and password can be hacked.

Simple infographic by Google to explain what their Password Checkup Tool does.