At this point, it’s established that when you sign up for a service, you should always expect that at some point it will be breached. But that doesn’t mean you should give up on practicing basic security hygiene, because let’s face it: reused and shared passwords are still one of the major ways top ways cybercriminals take over online accounts. Other times, it’s the easy-to-guess passwords (“123456,” anyone?). So it’s easy to see why Google is making it dead simple to check if your passwords have been compromised in a data breach. It’s now baking its Password Checkup Chrome extension,…
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