Stop Using Your Passwords—1Password And Google Warn

Update, Nov. 22, 2024: This story, originally published Nov. 20, now includes a new warning from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency about stopping the theft of passwords and other credentials using FIDO authentication.

1Password has built a reputation on protecting and managing your passwords securely and Google has a security team that is renowned globally for the work it does to protect billions of users every day. Both have warned that passwords are less secure than an already available and easier to use alternative. Now 1Password has exclusively revealed to me how its users are flocking to passkeys as they seek to abandon passwords for a more hacker-resistant and passwordless future. Here’s what you need to know and why making the move is less painful than you might imagine.

According to statistics made available exclusively to me by 1Password’s head of passwordless technology ahead of publication, Anna Pobletts, passkey adoption has surged during the last 12 months among 1Password users. On average, 1 in every 3.4 1Password users has at least one passkey stored, and there are more than 2.1 million passkey authentications made every month. Since 1Password first launched passkeys in the market in Sept. 2023, there have been 4.2 million passkeys saved in 1Password. The most significant week for passkey adoption was April 15, 2024, when almost 90,000 passkeys were saved. This date correlates closely with an announcement by X that it was adding support for passkeys to iOS users globally on April 8. It would seem that consumers of 1Password are more likely to adopt passkeys currently, with 73% falling into this category and just 27% being business account holders.

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