Proton Pass Can Now Evaluate Your Passwords and Find Your Information on the Dark Web
Proton Pass is one of the newest yet best password managers on the market, already catching up with industry veterans like 1Password and BitWarden. Now the company is looking to make its free password manager even more useful, as well as add some extra features for premium subscribers.
At its most basic level , Proton Pass is completely free for all users. This gives you a truly competitive password manager, and now access to new Pass Monitor and Password Health features that will tell you whether your passwords are weak or reused. The password manager will even be able to detect if your accounts have 2FA (two-factor authentication), which you can then enable without leaving the app or website. Proton says all these checks are also done on the device, without sending any of your personal data over the internet.
This new update also brings the Proton Pass even closer to some of its biggest competitors. 1Password, another popular manager that I’ve used for several years, offers similar functionality but requires a monthly subscription. Other options like LastPass offer a free plan, but due to a recent data breach, some may not be comfortable using this option.
There’s also Bitwarden, which also has a free plan and has previously received rave reviews . However, Bitwarden security reports are available with a premium subscription that costs $10 per year.
Proton Pass, on the other hand, avoids locking out core features for a monthly subscription. Instead, users who opt for the $1.99 per month Pass Plus plan (or those who subscribe to Proton Unlimited ) get a set of bonus features. The newest of these is real-time dark web monitoring, announced today, which will alert you if any of your email addresses or other personal information ends up on the dark web.
This new feature works in conjunction with Proton Mail’s recent release of Dark Web Monitoring . Premium users also get access to Proton Sentinel , a system designed to prevent account takeovers even if someone has successfully stolen your Proton login details. The company says that since its launch in August 2023, Sentinel has stopped more than 15,000 account takeover attempts.
Son Nguyen, Chief Product Officer at Proton, says, “Pass Monitor allows users to assess the security status of their online credentials and provides immediate alerts if their data is compromised,” offering a proactive way to protect your important accounts and personal information.