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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

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In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious…

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[-] MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The accounts they're breaking the encryption on were never configured properly. These are old accounts from when LastPass had weak defaults and neither the user or LastPass updated those settings on old accounts. Those settings have always existed though and could have been improved by the user.

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