Google uploading your plain text passwords

Anoop Ghanwani anoop at alumni.duke.edu
Sat Jun 12 06:34:05 UTC 2021


On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:51 PM Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com>
wrote:

>
> Having my email password compromised?
> That's a bit of a "meh" moment.
> Suddenly discovering that one password now gave access to
> potentially all my financial accounts as well?
> That's a wake up in the night with cold sweats moment.  :(
>

Thanks for articulating the issue so well.

And glad I saw this discussion because I had no idea that
if my gmail account was compromised all my financial accounts
would become accessible.

The issue is discussed quite nicely here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/174312/can-google-employees-see-my-saved-google-chrome-passwords/
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