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The incident occurred last week and lasted for nearly 18 hours until the company fixed the issue on July 25.
Crash affected Windows users who were running the M127 version of the Chrome browser. According to Google, about 2% of the 25% of users who deployed the configuration change encountered the issue. Given the global scale, the number of people affected could reach 17 million.
The technical cause of the incident was a “change in product behavior without proper feature protection,” Google explained, indicating that the company may have accidentally released an untested update.
Google Password Manager stores users’ credentials in their Google accounts and offers to create strong, unique passwords. That is, of course, if the service doesn’t disappear for almost a day because Google released a faulty update.
The incident highlights the risks of using browser-based password managers, even from big companies like Google. Standalone password management programs like LastPass or Bitwarden are an alternative, though they too not insured from security issues.
This isn’t the only security issue Google has had in recent times. According to information According to cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs, an issue recently emerged with email verification when creating new Google Workspace accounts. This allowed attackers to bypass verification and impersonate domain owners on third-party services. Google quickly patched the vulnerability within 72 hours of its discovery.
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Source: Forbes, TheRegister
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