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If you’ve been following the LastPass data breach scandal over the past few months, you could be forgiven for thinking it couldn’t get any worse. Every few weeks, the company comes out with grim news about the extent of the hack. Now, its parent company, GoTo, has revealed that it too was a victim.
In a blog post, GoTo CEO Paddy Srinivasan issued an update informing customers that products other than LastPass were compromised in the breach. GoTo services that shared a server with LastPass, such as Central, Pro, join.me, Hamachi, and RemotelyAnywhere had sensitive information stolen during the LastPass hack, including usernames, salted and hashed passwords, multi-factor authentication settings, as well as product and licensing information. Additionally, services Rescue and GoToMyPC had a small subset of their multi-factor authentication settings impacted by the breach.
Srinivasan states that affected customers are being contacted directly and that although password information was salted and hashed, GoTo is resetting their passwords out of an abundance of caution. Additionally, the company is migrating affected accounts onto an enhanced Identity Management Platform to provide additional security and…
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