Chrome will soon be able to fix compromised passwords with one click avoiding the manual hassle

Most users have probably experienced a password hack or data breach attempt, forcing them to change their passwords. Google is looking to help streamline this process by allowing Chrome to fix such passwords with just one click. The feature was announced at the Google I/O developer conference and will make its way to Chrome this year for some websites, with more added in the future.

Chrome has had the password check tool that lets users know if their password was involved in a data breach for a while and this feature is now getting more functionality. As announced at Google I/O by Paul Kinlan, lead for Chrome Developer Relations, the password manager will soon show a pop up notifying the user about the data breach with an option to automatically change the password. 

This will be applicable to supported websites and with one click, Chrome will generate a strong replacement password for that site and update it in its database for easy log in. During the conference, Kinlan stated that this feature will start showing up on a subset of websites in 2025 and more websites will be included in the future. This would require third party websites to add password replacement in their code.

This move is part of reshaping user authentication and identity verification which also includes a credential manager with one sign-in UI for all credentials, syncing passkeys across platforms, and immediate mediation for websites to only request credentials already available on the device rather than QR code scanning by another device.