Did you receive a popup like this ?
You don’t save passwords in Google Chrome Still it shows the popup and says,
Check your saved passwords
The password that you just used was found in data breach. To secure your accounts, Google Password Manager recommends changing it now and checking your saved passwords.
Well, you don’t need to worry as there is no human looking into your passwords. This is an automated program inbuilt in Google Chrome to safeguard your accounts on many websites. The user password combination that you used was leaked from some website and it is with hackers somewhere. They can misuse it anytime. It is good to change the password immediately and also enable 2 factor authentication for additional protection.
If you are still not convinced and would like to disable this feature in Chrome. Then you can follow these steps.
- Click the 3 dot menu at the top right of Chrome.
- Click Settings.
- Underneath Privacy and security, click Security.
- Click the toggle next to Warn you if passwords are exposed in a data breach to turn it off.
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