Google took advantage of Safer Internet DayWorld Day for a Safer Internet, to unveil an extension for its Chrome browser that queries databases containing billions of hacked accounts.
Yahoo!, Sony, Facebook, Orange or WhatsApp… There are countless security breaches that have affected millions of Internet users. Each time, hackers manage to seize personal data such as usernames and passwords, without you being informed. To find out if you are one of the victims, GoogleGoogle released an extension for its Chrome browser.
baptized Password Checkupand launched on the day of Safer InternetInternet Day, it interrogates a huge database compiling some four billion identifiers and passwords recovered in hacks. If your identifier or your password used on a site is in this database, the extension warns you and invites you, of course, to modify them.
Every time you connect to a site, the extension kicks in
Of course, the question arises whether this extension, which analyzes our browsing, could itself be hacked and at the same time transmit to malicious spirits your login credentials for Internet sites (webmail, FacebookFacebookbanks, Amazon, etc.).
In the ticket that presents its extensionGoogle ensures that the extension is encrypted from end to end, and that the comparison between personal data and the database multiplies the phases of “ hashing so that nothing is visible, both to Google and to third parties. In addition, nothing is saved online, and everything remains stored in the browser. Finally, if you plan to uninstall the extension, all data is then deleted, and there is no longer any trace of your login information.
