Google Passkey Has Now Been Used More Than One Billion Times

Google passkey illustration (photo: Google)

JAKARTA - In less than a year since its launch, Google announced that passkeys have now been used to authenticate people more than 1 billion times in more than 400 million Google accounts.

When introducing passkeys for the first time, Google is determined to increase the security of its users' accounts, claiming passkeys are easier to use and hold phishing, than using app and SMS-based OTP words.

To increase its security, Google will soon expand the passkey to users with the highest risk of targeted attacks, such as journalists, human rights workers, and many more, with the Advanced Protection Program (APP).

APP is traditionally required to use a hardware security key as a second factor, but users can immediately register at APP with any password key other than the hardware security key, or use their password key as the only factor or along with the password," wrote Google.

It also expands Cross Account Protection to protect users on various platforms. The system allows Google to share security notifications about suspicious events with non-Google apps and services.

"This is an important benefit because cybercriminals often use early entry points as a foothold to gain access to more of your information," the search giant added.

Google recommends users to create passkeys so that your account benefits from new protections. In addition, always apply to creating long passwords with mixed characters, numbers and symbols, applying two-factor authentication (2FA).