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Password monitors

If you’re a user of Microsoft’s Edge browser, in the last couple of months you may well have encountered a new kind of security popup, one telling you that a password you have is compromised. This is the result of Microsoft adding a new Password Monitor into the browser platform early this year.

This type of security tool isn’t new – both Firefox and Chrome already have these tools built in, though they generally aren’t so in-your-face about notifying you of a breach. There are also password monitors built into the paid versions of a number of Password Manager services and several free websites that will do the job as well.

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