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Ask HN: Chrome says I have 83 compromised passwords. How do I fix this?
I know, use a password manager, etc. which is great advice moving forward. But how do I clear this backlog of accounts for absolutely random websites I haven't accessed in years!
Is there any software or automation tool that can do this?
- dpark 4y agoDon’t. Worry about the ones that matter. If some random forums have a crappy password, whatever. If your credit card, bank, Amazon, or sometime other website with financial info has a leaked password, fix those. You can fix the others lazily, when/if you access them next.
- toast0 4y ago> I know, use a password manager If chrome knows about your passwords being pwned, you are using a password manager. Just let it pick the passwords in the future. Look at the list, and change / close a couple accounts a day/week and you'll be done eventually. Prioritize to change important accounts first.
- thomasdziedzic 4y agoAs far as I know, this will have to be a manual process of enumerating all your accounts, and changing the password for each one using their own reset password mechanism. I did this when I first started using a password manager and the couple of hours that I put in years ago have paid off over and over again with peace of mind and better security practices.
- tamaharbor 4y agoDoes anyone have a recommendation for a good and secure and preferably free password manager?
- synotna 4y agobitwarden
- rapind 4y agoBitwarden
- eastbound 4y agoHow much is their bug bounty? It’s not written on this page: https://hackerone.com/bitwarden?type=team https://hackerone.com/bitwarden?type=team Besides, how much should the bug bounty of a password manager be?
- dhzhzjsbevs 4y agoI dunno, looks like they're active though unlike the competition.
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- mhb 4y agoKeePassXC
- mccorrinall 4y agoKeePass 2
- ______-_-______ 4y agoBitwarden if you want a cloud service KeePass or KeePassXC if you want to control your own data and use something like Syncthing to sync
- anthropodie 4y agoThere is vaultwarden which is self hosted version of bitwarden.
- precurse 4y agoYep! I run it myself and it works fantastic. And my contingency plan if I can no longer self host, is export from one of my devices and import into the cloud version of Bitwarden. I don't see myself needing to do that, but you never know.
- doubled112 4y agoI keep it simple too. Just keep the json export on an offline encrypted USB stick. If something happens I’ll use my eyeballs until I figure something else out.
- DeWilde 4y agoKeePassXC and combine it with cloud storage and you have a semi-self-hosted or host it on a storage attached to a network you can VPN in to and you have fully self-hosted password manager accessible from anywhere.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoKeepassXC + syncthing if you don't use iOS. Nextcloud works well if you do use iOS. No need for a VPN with either.
- torpid 4y agoThis - and combine it with key+paraphrase, keep the key local to your devices and your keepass file in the cloud. I've used this setup for years backed by a webdav share on multiple platforms. It's incredibly robust especially synchronizing changes
- fassssst 4y agoThe built in Mac/Safari one works great and works with Windows too via the iCloud app and browser extension.
- wonderbore 4y agoDepending on the ecosystem you live in, your browser’s or your OS’ password managers are the most straightforward to use. I switched to Safari on Mac because I was tired of subpar experience with all the password managers and now my phone is able to store and recall all of my passwords. Super simple to use.
- orangepurple 4y agoKeePassXC
- woleium 4y agofor a team who have shared password folders, I've not found a better solution than LastPass
- tfigment 4y agoPassword safe on windows and android. I like better than keepass. In theory you can transfer between them but i always lost datawhen doing that.
- rollcat 4y ago1password. Not free but absolutely worth the money.
- rglullis 4y agoYou have better alternatives: bitwarden for those looking for a cloud solution, keepassXC who prefer to keep the data under their own control. Plus, they are both free/libre.
- lnxg33k1 4y agoI always had issues with KeepassXC. mostly as a concept, I'm not sure if it made sense, but since we're talking about it, how do you cope with the concept that if you lose your phone with the database on it, an attacker can just keep a perpetual copy of your passwords free to brute force and do whatever they wanted? I can revoke access to things with cloud services or self-hosted services, but with all the database in the hand of an attacker he can try to break it indefinitely and undisturbed.. I think KeepassXC for this reason is the worst among cloud hosted and self-hosted solutions
- rglullis 4y agoAFAIK, the filesystem is encrypted on any modern device. An attacker would have to first break into the device and then break into the password database. And if they can break into the device it is game over already. Also, the attacker would have to be really motivated to brute force into it, and if it happened that my phone got stolen and I was worried about your scenario, I'd be just rotating all the high-value passwords I have, which is something that I think can be done quickly.
- rollcat 4y agoI've tried Bitwarden, pass, and KeepassXC in the past. 1password is by far the most polished. If you consider how big the problem space is (interoperating with every possible broken website out there), support for TouchID/Apple Watch unlock, etc I think I'll take it over having access to the source I will never read.
- butterlesstoast 4y ago1Pass is delightful to use. Although, a bit expensive.
- thomaszander 4y agoSurprised this one hasn't been pointed out yet; "Passman" which is part of nextcloud and has plugins for all major browsers. open source, encrypted-while-at-rest and a cloud service allowing you to use it from all your machines and even while traveling on public machines.
- anon_123g987 4y agoThe Wikipedia has this list of password managers with feature comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers
- ohyoutravel 4y ago1pass is my choice because I pay for it. I also like KeePassXC, but the problem I have with the free things is there aren’t quite as many features and development can just stop at any time. KeePassXC for example got started because KeePass devs just abandoned the project effectively. By fewer features I mean like iOS and android apps (though I know KeePassXC has unofficial apps not managed by them). I just have used 1Pass for a while, maybe 5-6 years, it’s seamless with apps across everything and lots of support and because I pay for it I know there’s a business behind it which for me feels more stable with respect to longer term support.
- nick__m 4y agoI might be an heretic but I use the one from Microsoft! My password are available everywhere on Android via the Authenticator app and on any browser that have the Microsoft autofill extension on whatever OS I happen to be currently using. I have a 1Password account provided by my employer but I don't want to tie access to my password to my employment. Also I don't like that 1Passowrd required to enter a really long key to enroll a new device. And I figured that I might use the MS account I created for Windows 10 for something usefull. As far ass I know there are no equivalent way of using the Chrome password manager outside of Chrome and Android.
- guiambros 4y ago1Password for me. Not free, but worth every cent. Very robust, super polished interface, cloud sync, native client for all platforms (including Linux), robust for use across family members (and you can specify which vaults you want to share with whom), well integrated with iOS/Android.
- encryptluks2 4y agoPassword Store is pretty good.
- willis936 4y agoI did this last year. It wasn't so much "a couple hours" so much as it was "all free time for three months then dealing with the mental equivalent of getting off a treadmill after an hour". It's worth it, but it isn't for the faint of heart.
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- lordgrenville 4y agoQuite a lot are probably services you don't use anymore, and that don't have up-to-date payment methods. In which case you can just write them off.
- philjackson 4y agoYou probably don't want your identity taken on them either - that might open up some attack surfaces. Best advice is just take the hit and change the passwords for everything.
- JAM1971 4y agoIn addition to changing passwords (one unique and complex password per site), now is a great time to simply delete accounts that you no longer use.
- picture 4y agoNot all sites offer that, especially smaller ones. I've had to deal with this before, and even emailing every contact email I could find doesn't help. I ended up changing the passphrases of all the other services instead.
- ajot 4y agoWhen I started using a password manager I did this: change repeating passwords, and delete info on sites I don't use any more. JustDeleteMe [0] has a good list of account deletion methods and links for different pages. [0] https://justdeleteme.xyz/index.html https://justdeleteme.xyz/index.html
- NikolaNovak 4y agoSadly that's either obscure or unavailable for majority of sites. (similarly and a major peeve - vast majority of signup verification emails do not have a "no this is NOT me that signed up, delete this email" option! My email gets misused a lot in some countries where my name is common and I have no easy recourse to deny it)
- beamatronic 4y agoDo a few each day.
- Brajeshwar 4y agoI include them as a task in my weekly "digital chores" and I'm left with 63 Compromised website as of today. But I'm down to "zero" on Weak, and Vulnerable Passwords. Btw, most of them can just be deleted -- old websites, changed business, etc.
- jeffbee 4y agoYou could just not care if the password for some random forum is known.
- mikequinlan 4y agoConsider yourself lucky. Mine says 357. Every once in a while I go in and update a few of them at a time.
- jrexilius 4y ago83 _different_ passwords?.. that seems high. You may want to more closely inspect extensions or plugins you may have installed on your browser and see if you aren't running some form of key logger or cred stealer..
- woodruffw 4y agoSeparately, it's possible that they've duplicated multiple passwords across (sub-)domains or URLs -- I believe both Chrome and Firefox match on a URL prefix or glob-style pattern, so it's easy to end up with duplicates across `login.bank.com` and `www.login.bank.com`.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoYeah, I'd be throwing out all of my shit.
- joshka 4y agoMy guess as to the root cause of this is self chosen / non random passwords that appear in hibp password lists. ‘Password1234%’ etc
- gtm1260 4y agoNot 83 different passwords, 83 sites with the same, compromised password. I know, I know, horrible security, but I do believe its what the majority of people do!
- Dr_ReD 4y agoIf you mean to clear the backlog inside the browser, you can manage your passwords in chrome://settings/passwords. Or you can clear them, all at once, via chrome://settings/clearBrowserData
- CodeWriter23 4y agoPrioritize the ones that can do the most harm / cause the most loss and get off of HN and change them now.
- brianmcc 4y agoAbsolutely this - pick out the top 5 or something. Don't be overwhelmed by 83, just identify the highest impacts.
- andrewxdiamond 4y agoDashlane is a password manager that has support for automatically changing (some) passwords. They’re effectively scraping the target sites but it’s moderately effective and really cuts down on the work you have to do. https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22320467/dashlane-one-click-password-changer-autofill-machine-learning https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22320467/dashlane-one-cli...
- throwaway782 4y agoInstall firefox?
- jenscow 4y agoFor most random websites, it would probably be better to close your account. As you are using Chrome, you already have a password manager. Also, since chrome is warning you about these passwords, it obviously knows your passwords - so you are already using its password manager. Moving forward, utilise the "generate password" functionality.
- 28304283409234 4y agoHow did HN end up to be a Stack Overflow for the computer illiterate?
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoFor the same reason people have been posting ads offering hacking services here. Misunderstandings and hopium, mostly.
- rkagerer 4y agoDo all of these commercial products that flag compromised passwords get their data from the same source of truth (HaveIBeenPwned)?
- BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 4y agoI don't really care about passwords for forum websites. You want strong passwords for any website that retains credit card information. And super strong passwords for Google, email, bank and credit cards. These are all in my head and looong. If your phone gets simjacked, you most definitely do not want to allow Google password recovery by text to "your" phone number.
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