Google apologizes for breaking password manager for millions of Windows users with iffy Chrome update

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Happy Sysadmin Day

Google celebrated Sysadmin Day last week by apologizing for breaking its password manager for millions of Windows users – just as many Windows admins were still hard at work mitigating the impact of the faulty CrowdStrike update.occurred late last week and took until July 25 for the nearly 18-hour incident to finally be signed off as fixed.

According to the search giant,"the root cause of the issue is a change in product behavior without proper feature guard." It all sounds suspiciously like a faulty update being pushed out.from the International Telecommunication Union , there were 5.4 billion internet users in 2023. Chrome's market share is 65.68 percent, according to. As such, more than 17 million users might have received the broken update and, as Google put it,"experienced the issue.

That's assuming, of course, the service doesn't abruptly disappear for almost a day because Google pushed out a broken update.

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