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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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[-] ExcessiveAardvark@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The problem is more that LastPass' system is bad. 1password (and probably others) mitigate a possible hack by having the keyring encrypted by something in addition to the password.

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