Google apologises for a bug that prevented around 15 million Windows users from retrieving or saving their passwords. Google reported that it was resolved approximately eighteen hours after the problem first arose on July 24. According to the search engine behemoth, the malfunction resulted from a “change in product behaviour without proper feature guard.”
Users could run the Chrome browser with a command line flag at the time, thanks to a temporary fix that Google had issued. They added that just the Windows M127 version of Google Chrome was affected by the problem.
After the fix was made, users were advised to restart Google Chrome.
More than 3 million Windows users use Google Password Manager, according to a Forbes study.
The announcement follows a week of severe Windows system disruption brought on by a fault in a security update developed by American cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.