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Google Chrome is able to detect if your passwords have been compromised, and now the Android app will be able to notify you that this event has occurred so that you can change your password and make sure you are sufficiently protected. Additionally, you can enable or disable these notifications as you prefer, although you can check them anyway.
You will receive notifications from Chrome about your passwords
Password breach
The free Android
Like many other browsers, Google Chrome has a section on its platform where you can save your passwords and usernames on websites so you can quickly log in from your devices.
Taking advantage of this, Google takes care of checking in a totally secure way if these passwords that you have saved were compromised by leaks on the internet to find out if they are still safe or not, in which case you will need to change them to make sure no one takes your accounts.
Warning Passwords in Google Chrome
The free Android
Now, Google Chrome for Android will notify you whenever one of these passwords is leaked on the Internet. so you can change it instantly and you don’t have to check it manually in the password section. Follow these steps:
- Open Settings in Chrome.
- Click Privacy & Security and Safe Browsing.
- Click Standard Protection.
- Click “Notify me if your passwords are exposed in a data breach”.
With this, the American company’s browser will notify you if any of your passwords have appeared on the Internet so that you can change it immediately. Even so, you must know that it is always recommended to set two-step verification so that in addition to knowing your password, it is necessary to authorize the connection from another device.
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