Over the past months there has been an incident of password and username hacks and breaches due to systems and security flaws.
Therefore, there is the need for users to think of other alternatives. That is checking to see whether their passwords has been hacked and therefore the need to change it.
However, there is an equal mount of chance that your account details might have been part of these leaked or breached particulars.
This article seeks to guide users on how to check whether their accounts has been hacked. This service will allow you to check your password sanity.
This procedure adopted will be made possible by recently announced Google tool called Password Checkup which is an extension of Google Chrome.
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Pre-Requisite
- Google Chrome Browser (Latest Version)
- working internet connectivity
How to Download Password Checkup
- Open your Google Chrome Browser
- Open your Google Chrome Store
- Search for Password Checkup
- Click on add to Chrome to install it
How Password Checkup tool works
The Password Checkup tool automatically monitors the passwords of your account anytime users login into their account or service.
Once the extension detects any security flaw or if it detects that the password has been leaked, it prompts a red warning box popup asking the user to change the password for the respective account.
In case, you forgot to pay attention to the popup, the Password Checkup icon remains ‘Red’ instead of ‘Green’.
How to change the password using Password Checkup tool
As we all know how to change a password of any particular account or service.
But the Password Checkup tool popup also has a ‘Learn more’ button that redirects the user directly to the support page of the particular web page making it easier for users to change their passwords.
