The password supervisor in Google Chrome already features a password check-up characteristic, which can let you realize if the password you’re utilizing has leaked onto the web. This occurs generally when web sites get hacked and thousands and thousands of passwords are uncovered.
Now Google is engaged on a normal means that will help you change your leaked password.
The characteristic makes use of a URL scheme known as Well Known Change Password the place most web sites would have a redirect in place utilizing the pathway to direct you to their Change Password web page e.g.
WordPress [https://wordpress.com/.well-known/change-password]Twitter [http://twitter.com/.well-known/change-password]
Now, if Google detects that your password has been hacked, merely clicking on a button would take you to the correct place to replace it, eradicating some friction from the method.
If a web site doesn’t help the characteristic Google will direct you to its residence web page as a substitute.
The characteristic is at the moment behind a flag in Chrome 86, which is being launched in October 2020.
The characteristic is standard-based, is already accessible in Safari, and ought to be coming to all Chromium-based browsers briefly order.
