Security News > 2020 > April > Microsoft’s Edge browser to get breached credential alerts
After re-Chroming its Edge browser last summer, Microsoft this week announced a list of new security and privacy features it plans to add to forthcoming versions in an effort to take on its rivals.
The third is called Password Monitor, a feature that will tell Edge users when usernames and passwords they've entered on a website have been found on the dark web.
Starting with Password Monitor, the most significant of the new features, which should appear in Edge at some point soon.
It's not just that the user's password can't be leaked to Microsoft or a man-in-the-middle, but that the feature doesn't become an inadvertent lookup for criminals looking in the opposite direction.
Hopefully, Microsoft will share more detail on this aspect of Edge's Password Monitor at some point.
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