Google warns BILLIONS of passwords have been hacked – check your accounts now

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Google warns BILLIONS of passwords have been hacked – check your accounts now
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BILLIONS of passwords for online accounts have leaked to the web in recent years – and it’s easy to find out if yours are among them. Google has built a handy tool that allows users of its Ch…

"Since our launch, over 650,000 people have participated in our early experiment," Google's Jennifer Pullman explained in 2019.

If you use a very simple password, it's likely someone else does too – and they may have been hacked themselves. "Hijackers routinely attempt to sign in to sites across the web with every credential exposed by a third-party breach," said Pullman.How to check your password If your password or username matches a Google database of more than 4billion compromised credentials, the software will flag them.

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