An update to Google Assistant will help Internet users who are victims of a compromised password, reports Numerama this Friday, which relays information revealed on Twitter by a journalist from Android Police.
From now on, Google's service will alert you as soon as it detects that your password has been stolen.
Then he will offer you to find another one.
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The tool alerts on several occasions.
Either he detected a leak of personal data affecting a site, or a site communicated on an attack on its database.
Google can know that you have an account on a particular site if you entrust it with managing the password and can therefore alert you accordingly.
The automatic change
Once notified, you can give a new password, and Google Assistant will then change it automatically on the site concerned, specifies Numerama.
It will be enough to press a button “Change automatically”.
However, this feature will not work with all websites.
Procedures may vary from site to site.
This Chrome tool was long overdue, as the American giant had already announced it in 2021. An identical service is available in the Dashlane password manager.
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