Google's Password Checkup Plug-in For Chrome Can Warn You If Your Password Was Stolen
PCWorld|March 2019

It’s another way of locking you into Chrome, but it’s a useful tool.

Mark Hachman
Google's Password Checkup Plug-in For Chrome Can Warn You If Your Password Was Stolen

As data breaches become normalized, it’s more and more likely that your personal information may be exposed. But how will you know? In February, Google published a Chrome plug-in that will report if the login info you use in say, Yahoo, has been stolen.

Google’s Password Checkup plug-in (go.pcworld.com/4stp) won’t do anything until it detects that you’ve logged in to a site whose data has been previously compromised. If a login and password have been found in the recent “Collections” leak (go.pcworld.com/colk) of more than 2 billion usernames and passwords, a message will pop up warning that your information has been compromised. All told, Google has archived over 4 billion credentials that it feels have been compromised.

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