Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish for 15M Windows User (opens in new tab)

I wouldn't touch that Google password manager with a 10 ft pole, doesn't even have encryption enabled by default. I know taviso says browser password manager good and password manager accessed via browser extension bad, but the browser password manager is just lacking on almost every front.

Glad to see that Apple is going to bring password managers to the masses.

>However, working on the basis that there are more than 3 billion Chrome web browser users, with Windows users counting for the vast majority of these, it’s possible to come up with an estimated number. Google said that 25% of the user base saw the configuration change rolled out, which, by my calculations, is around 750 million. Of these, around 2%, according to Google’s estimation, were hit by the password manager issue. That means around 15 million users have seen their passwords vanish into thin air.

That is highly likely to be a wrong Estimate. The total Chrome number includes Android. In terms of PC it is ~1B outside of China. ( Not even Microsoft has a concrete answer ).

So we are looking at 5M.

People should not be treating any of these password managers as a source of truth. You should have them stored in a text or excel file or any kind of file and backed up on at least 2 storage areas.

Google won't do backups for you, do them yourself. Oh, does Chrome even allow backups?

Bitwarden FTW!