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Password Checkup by Google

A Chrome Extension to help resecure hacked accounts

Password Checkup helps you resecure accounts that were affected by data breaches.

Wherever you sign-in, if you enter a username and password that is no longer safe due to appearing in a data breach known to Google, you’ll receive an alert.

Google Launches New Chrome Extension to Alert Users of Hacked PasswordsLarge scale hacks of people's passwords and credentials are becoming increasingly common - just a few weeks back, a database of more than 773 million email addresses and passwords was leaked online, and made available to potentially ill-intentioned groups.
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Hunter Carter
Hunter Carter
How does it work? Is it sniffing the password and sending to a server? Or is it all client side?
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Tony Brix
Tony Brix
@school_4_ants skimming through the source code it looks like they check against a firebase database https://password-api-prod.fireba...
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Tony Brix
Tony Brix
@school_4_ants According to Google they use "multiple rounds of hashing, k-anonymity, and private set intersection with blinding" to secure the username/password before sending them to a server. https://security.googleblog.com/...
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Amin Afshar
Amin Afshar

Seems to work instantly. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing.

Pros:

Great idea to bring some peace of mind for security.

Cons:

Does it really need to be an extension? I think a website would have been sufficient.

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Chris Messina
Chris Messina
If it's a Chrome Extension then it comes w/ you... otherwise, it's unlikely you'll visit a website repeatedly to check your passwords.
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Ayush Chandra
Ayush Chandra
Great job!! 😊 Great move by Google
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Milos
Milos
Mui interestados
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casey mahoney
casey mahoney
To early to tell. Give me a few days and I will have something concrete to say!
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