One of the most well-known password organisers in the world, LastPass, experienced a significant data breach in December, putting the online passwords and personal information of its users at risk. Time is running out if you still haven’t changed your passwords.
On December 22, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba admitted in a blog post that a security breach the business first disclosed in August ultimately resulted in the theft of crucial vault data and customer account information by a “unauthorised entity.” The issue is the most recent in a protracted and alarming line of security occurrences affecting LastPass that stretch back to 2011.
According to Toubba, the unauthorised entity was able to acquire unencrypted customer account data including LastPass usernames, business names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses. The same unauthorised entity also had access to client vault data, which contains both encrypted and unencrypted information including usernames and passwords for all the websites that consumers have saved in their vaults. If you use LastPass, you should consider switching to another password manager given how seriously your passwords and personal information are at r
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