LastPass CEOKarim Toubbahas revealed that the password manager wasbreached for a second time.
The company said personal information was disclosed, but customer passwords remained safe.
The incident is a reminder, some experts say, that you should take extra precautions with your password.
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“That way, brute force attempts on the master password become infeasible or impossible.”
LastPass Hacked?
LastPass might not live up to its name after the recent security incident.
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LastPass warned of asimilar incident in September.
“Our customers' passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.”
Callahan said that despite the LastPass incident, password managers are usually secure.
The software is a much better option than reusing weak passwords or writing passwords down on paper.
Callahan said that password managers had been hacked in the past.
Seek out a password manager with zero-knowledge and zero-trust security architecture.
“Like any software, password managers can have vulnerabilities that are discovered over time,” he added.
“Keep the password manager up to date to ensure it is the most secure version.”
If you do everything correctly, you could still run into problems using a password manager.
Correction 12/8/2022: Corrected the source’s title in paragraph three.
