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Please, stop using LastPass.
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After getting hacked in August, LastPass promised that customer data was safe. Later, the company admitted that customer data was compromised, but claimed that user passwords were not part of the data breach. Unfortunately, LastPass was completely and totally wrong.
According to a new LastPass press release, hackers obtained a “backup of customer vault data” during the big security breach earlier this year. The information stored in this vault data is encrypted, but a hacker can decrypt it using your master password—that’s the password you use to log into LastPass.
If your LastPass master password is something simple, like “password1234” or “guitarhero1984,” you’re probably screwed. Hackers can easily guess these simple passwords using brute force. For security’s sake, please change your password on every website immediately. (A rival password manager that hasn’t been hacked, such as 1Password, can help you get the job done.)
Users who created a strong master password might be in the clear. At least, that’s what LastPass says. The company claims that it would be “extremely difficult” to guess master passwords for…
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