Most of the time, the only thing that protects you personal information and online accounts are your passwords. Yet 67% of people admit to using the same password for more than one account and over 40% of people use simple passwords like pet names, birthdates, or even using the word “password” as a password.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the years, we have tried to impress upon all of our readers the importance of using complex passwords and using a password manager to help you remember and keep track of your passwords.<\/span><\/p>\n We’ve recently discovered a free extension for Chrome – created by Google – that can help you identify unsafe passwords and\/or passwords that have been exposed on the World Wide Web or on the dark web.<\/span><\/p>\n If you use Chrome and you have a Google Account (Gmail), we are recommending that you install this free extension to add another layer of security when you’re online.<\/span><\/p>\n Here is more information from Google about Password Checkup:<\/span><\/p>\n “Protect accounts that have unsafe passwords<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n If your password for a non-Google website has been exposed, the Password Checkup extension can help let you know. That way, you can change your password for at-risk accounts to help secure them.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: If we believe your Google Account password is unsafe, we\u2019ll ask you to change it even if you don\u2019t use the Password Checkup extension.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Get the Password Checkup extension<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Password Checkup extension works when you\u2019re signed in to the Chrome browser on a computer.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On your computer, open Chrome.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sign in to your Google Account.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Go to the Chrome web store and download the Password Checkup extension<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Password Checkup gives you the option to turn the extension on or off in Chrome by going to Settings > More tools > Extensions. You can also choose to ignore warnings for exposed or unsafe passwords. We do not recommend doing that.<\/span><\/p>\n Download the Password Checkup extension from the Chrome store<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n You can get more information about Password Checkup here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Password Checkup by Google Most of the time, the only thing that protects you personal information and online accounts are your passwords. Yet 67% of people admit to using the same password for more than one account and over 40% of people use simple passwords like pet names, birthdates, or even using the word “password” as\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2897,1462,2574,11,1656],"tags":[392,2948,3566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17862,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17858\/revisions\/17862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFollow the steps on your screen.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nTurn the Password Checkup extension on or off<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nNote: Turning the Password Checkup extension off doesn’t delete info stored by the extension…”<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/password-checkup.png\")
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