{"id":839191,"date":"2024-07-31T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=839191"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T05:16:30","slug":"google-apologies-after-chrome-bug-wrecked-havoc-on-milions-of-windows-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/31\/google-apologies-after-chrome-bug-wrecked-havoc-on-milions-of-windows-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Google apologies after Chrome bug wrecked havoc on milions of Windows machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Google rolled out an update for Chrome on Windows that caused saved passwords to disappear for millions of users worldwide. Now, the tech giant has issued an apology saying that it is sorry for the inconvenience and shed some light on the root cause of the issue. Google said that impacted \u201cusers were unable to find passwords in Chrome\u2019s password manager\u201d and that while new passwords could be saved, they were not visible to users.<\/p>\n<p>The Chrome bug was first reported on July 24 and affected Windows users for nearly 18 hours before Google rolled out a fix on July 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Google rolled out an update for Chrome on Windows that caused saved passwords to disappear for millions of users worldwide. Now, the tech giant has issued an apology saying that it is sorry for the inconvenience and shed some light on the root cause of the issue. Google said that impacted \u201cusers were unable to find passwords in Chrome\u2019s password manager\u201d and that while new passwords could be saved, they were not visible to users. The Chrome bug was first reported on July 24 and affected Windows users for nearly 18 hours before Google rolled out a fix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}