Microsoft began rolling out passkey support to its consumer accounts in May 2024, allowing users to sign in with their face, fingerprint, or device pin as an alternative to a password. In May of this year Microsoft shifted to making passkey the default sign in for all new Microsoft accounts. According to Microsoft, the point of passkey is to make the future password less and to counteract the close to 4,000 password attacks estimated to occur worldwide every second . Instead of a single...
