Introduces the Google Chrome extension that detects the details of the stolen account

Google launches Chrome extension that detects stolen account details

Google is celebrating Safer Internet Day with two updates to secure user information, including your priceless usernames and passwords. One of them is a flawless extension for the desktop version of Chrome, the other is called Cross Account Protection.

To guard your username and account against hackers and attacks, Google has gathered a massive dump of 4 billion compromised credentials. When you install the extension called Password Checkup, it matches the information you've shared with Google with the one composed in and tells you if any of the entries was hacked. This will trigger a programmed cautioning and suggest changing your password.

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Using someone else's account and password sure is horrible, yet what is increasingly awful is one really getting into your Google Account, especially in the event that you store card information, accounts for web-based saving money and other sensitive data. Some protections haven't reached out to the application you use for Google Sign In, so Cross Account Protection comes in helpful.

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With it, Google will tell apps and sites that have actualized the login choice that an account was commandeered. Be that as it may, instead of releasing a wide range of sensitive data, the ruptured host will possibly know the reality of security occasion occurring and when did that happen. The element was created with Adobe, Internet Engineering Task Force, and the Open ID Foundation.