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Well, not exactly today, but there is a looming problem that can reach back when it arrives. Today, the majority of traffic and data are encrypted with the public-private key scheme, which is mostly safe. However, there is reporting that states bad actors are collecting vast amounts of today's encrypted data in anticipation of a future quantum computing ability to access it. Today, the data is gibberish but in 10 years…
Google has always been quietly designing and advancing secure systems. Here, they announced a quantum hacking-proof methodology of information utilized in Chrome. No one is going to care about it right now but when the moment arrives, Chrome at least will be ready.
Reference: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/google-chrome-quantum-apocalypse
