Edge will notify users of corrupted passwords -

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Little by little, Edge is catching up with the competition.

It has just integrated a new much anticipated feature with account alerts in case of corrupted password.

Concretely, the browser now informs the user when one of his identifiers is found in a hacked database.

Stolen credentials are regularly shared or sold on the dark web, sometimes for ridiculous amounts.

On a level with competitors

In practice, the Password Monitor function encrypts and hashes the credentials data to compare them to hacked databases.

A secure technique supposed to ensure the security of user accounts.

Microsoft is not the first player to deploy this function since it already existed on Chrome and Firefox.

However, it differs from its rivals by another very practical feature since it is now possible to ask the browser to generate itself random passwords, saved on the user's account and synchronized simultaneously on several machines.

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