MAC 911
By Glenn Fleishman , Senior Contributor, Macworld
Apple pushes password alerts to Safari’s Start Page, which may seem alarming, but it’s legitimate.
I brought up a Start Page in Safari 15 and a banner at the top read “Compromised Password.” I first thought that I must have been redirected to a website that looks like the Safari Start Page. The alert looked just like the kind of phishing technique that would lure someone in to entering the password for a site they weren’t visiting.
But on closer examination and a little research, I realized it was legitimate. I’d never received this kind of alert from Apple in Safari, despite the feature first appearing in operating system releases in the third quarter of 2020.