Applicable for: Windows
Your password may be compromised if your password is found in large lists of known user account passwords. These lists are built from the history of hackers maliciously accessing various websites and disclosing their internal account information. Cybercriminals may look for accounts that use compromised passwords in order to take them over or extract valuable information. Hence you should change compromised passwords immediately.
Norton Password Manager queries Have I Been Pwned to detect the compromised password by sending the first five characters of password hash. You can allow Norton Password Manager to change the password of a website or ignore the notification.
You need to setup your Norton Password Manager vault and make sure your vault is unlocked to view the compromised password notifications.
When Norton Password Manager detects a compromised password for a website when you sign in, if it is supported by Change Now, an Update Password notification is sent. Click Update Password to take you through the Change Now guided flow.
Norton Password Manager will offer a guided UI when you change a website’s password. Through the guided UI, you can generate a strong password, copy the current password, and update the password vault with the new password for the website.
Follow the instructions in the guided UI to successfully change the compromised password of your website and update the same into your Norton Password Manager vault for future usage.
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