Hundreds of thousands of people use hacked passwords

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Users must stop using the same pbadword for multiple websites as they make sure they do not hack their data, steal their identities, or even worse, announced Wednesday. a new Google study.

Google released the results of its study from data collected from 670,000 installed Google Chrome browser users to verify their pbadword and logged 21 million times to websites.

According to the results of the study on the behavior of pbadwords, a quarter of users do not change pbadword even if he tells them that their pbadword has been compromised.

A number of sites, such as (have I been pwned), can help users find out if their data has been detected, but this remains a confusing process for many users who do not know exactly what pbadwords should be update.

To this end, Google unveiled in February the addition of (Check Check) to check the Chrome browser pbadwords.

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The extension warns you when you log in to a site containing over 4 billion usernames and pbadwords that Google knows to be dangerous due to previous hacks, and prompts you to change your pbadword if necessary.

Google said: In the first month alone, we reviewed 21 million user names and pbadwords, and reported that more than 316,000 of them were dangerous.

The study found that 25.7%, or 81,368 add-ons, had chosen to ignore their hacker warnings and had continued to log on to sites using hacked data even after being warned by Google.

While 82,761 people, or 26% of users, created new pbadwords after receiving an alert and trying to choose stronger pbadwords, according to Google, 60% of new pbadwords are protected from attack of type diviner, and 96% of them were more powerful than the original pbadword. .