[ksec]

>However, working on the basis that there are more than 3 billion Chrome web browser users, with Windows users counting for the vast majority of these, it’s possible to come up with an estimated number. Google said that 25% of the user base saw the configuration change rolled out, which, by my calculations, is around 750 million. Of these, around 2%, according to Google’s estimation, were hit by the password manager issue. That means around 15 million users have seen their passwords vanish into thin air.

That is highly likely to be a wrong Estimate. The total Chrome number includes Android. In terms of PC it is ~1B outside of China. ( Not even Microsoft has a concrete answer ).

So we are looking at 5M.

[jaapz]

Also, the issue wasn't that passwords "vanished into thin air" which implies they are lost forever. Users were unable to access some stored passwords and unable to store new passwords for a time. After the fix, the passwords were accessible and users were able to store new passwords again.

Yes, a significant bug caused by not guarding new functionality with a feature flag, but not as significant as this news article makes it seem.

[hulitu]

> but not as significant as this news article makes it seem.

I thought Google has a "development process". /s