In the case of the extension, passwords were hashed and encrypted before being sent to Google: And of course, Google will also notify you of accounts using weak passwords that are on the easy-to-guess end of the spectrum. Same goes for if Google sees that you’re reusing passwords, which is a terrible practice everything should have a unique login. If your password has been included in a breach, Google will encourage you to change the affected password. Google is by no means the only one doing this: has proven to be a super helpful resource in this era of constant security breaches at major companies that affect tens of millions of customers.
Google says that it also monitors the dark web to some extent for collections of passwords - but most of the database that password checkup compares against comes from crawling the open web. Your login credentials are compared against the millions upon millions of known compromised accounts that’ve been part of major breaches.
And it’ll be prominently featured at, which is the URL shortcut to Google’s password manager. Password checkup was already available as an extension, but now Google is building it right into Google account controls. Google has a password manager that syncs across Chrome and Android, and now the company is adding a “password checkup” feature that will analyze your logins to ensure they haven’t been part of a massive security breach - and there have been oh so many of those.
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