If you happen to use your Google account to store and manage your web passwords, you’re probably familiar with Chrome mentioning that you have a compromised password from at least one website in the wild expanse of the internet. Now, the Mountain View giant is making it easier to reset those passwords through a new tool.
Powered by Duplex – which if you recall is the same technology that enables the Google Assistant to order food or hold phone calls, depending on where you are in the world – Chrome will soon enable a new ‘Change Password’ feature for supported websites.
When Chrome detects a compromised password, users will now be able to direct themselves to the relevant reset page in question through a single tap as the demonstration below reveals.
The utility will be a convenient one for users relying on Google’s password manager – previously, while Chrome could inform users of websites where their account passwords had been compromised, users would need to manually comb through a list and reset their accounts therein; which would be particularly burdensome if they’d used the same password across multiple sites (which, to be clear, is never a good idea).
The news was further met with the announcement that Google’s password manager will also soon be able to ingest saved passwords from other password management tools.
The features are expected to roll out to Chrome for Android users in the US first, whereafter a global release will occur ‘within the coming months’.
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