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Has Your Password Been Stolen? How many of you use the same password for many sites? Did you know this is a common occurrence and many of your passwords are being sold on the dark web?
By: Darren Cantrill
A new window will open, and Chrome will go through the process of “Checking passwords” again.
It was recently revealed that more than 44 million Microsoft account holders have been found using recycled passwords. This kind of login credential duplication is a gift for hackers who can then use one known, stolen, password against multiple different accounts with a good chance of gaining access to some of them.
I check my passwords frequently, and luckily my passwords only appeared 15 days ago for all 22 compromised passwords. Here is my Fitbit account information:
If you check too many times, you’ll get this error below. Select the link “check passwords in your Google Account”: Forbes’ article reveals the world’s 100 worst passwords. Are you using a bad password? Find out here. There are ways to stay on top of your passwords, if you use Google’s Chrome browser, copy/paste this link into your Chrome browser window (chrome://settings/passwords) to bring up Chrome’s internal password manager.
Where a new tab will open with:
It will look like this (click on the “Check passwords” text):
See PASSWORD on page 9 PAGE 8
