Check if the passwords saved in the Google web browser keychain are compromised by analyzing them in the verification tool built into Chrome.
Since version 79, Google Chrome includes a system to check if your passwords have been compromised during data leaks on the web. If the function was originally available as an extension, Password Checkup, still available, it is also integrated directly into the browser, in Chrome’s password manager.
You will be able to launch the verification of all the passwords saved in the Chrome keychain access, and proceed, when a password has been compromised, to its modification.
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1. Go to Chrome Keychain
Launch Google Chrome on your machine, click on your avatar, and then click on the wrench icon to display the browser password set.
2. Start the verification
Once on the page dedicated to password management, Chrome in principle immediately displays the number of potentially compromised passwords. Enter the Check Passwords menu.
Then click on the Recheck button to restart an analysis and ensure that the result obtained is up to date.
3. Change compromised passwords
Chrome should display a list of all logins and passwords saved in Chrome that have been compromised in a web data breach.
For each item, click on Modify password to access the page of the site concerned, and modify all the passwords that have been detected. For more security, prefer the complex passwords suggested by Chrome.
To do this, in the New password field, click Use suggested password to validate the password randomly generated by Chrome. If the password suggestion does not appear, right click, and choose Suggest password.
Then don’t forget to save the changed password in Chrome so that you can easily log in next time.