Posted on 06/16/2015 4:00:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
LastPass, a password manager, revealed Monday that it had been the target of a hack that compromised account email addresses and several security elements used to encrypt user data.
"We are confident that our encryption measures are sufficient to protect the vast majority of users," the company said in a statement. "Nonetheless, we are taking additional measures to ensure that your data remains secure."
LastPass stores multiple passwords for users' various online logins and uses one master password to access them.
Users most in danger of being personally hacked as a result of the breach, first detected Friday, are those who have committed one or both of these two cardinal sins of online safety: using a weak master password and reusing that password on multiple sites.
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I’m waiting for Lifelock to be hacked.
Guess I’ll still keep using PASsWRd and 123456.
I’m waiting for Hillary’s homebrew email server to be hacked.
That’s why bank robbers rob banks.
Looks like everyone’s paranoia about storing their passwords on somebody else’s cloud was well-founded after all. It’ll be a cold day in Hades before I trust all my data to a third party!
I would be willing to bet that the result of threats like this is that computers get taken off line and that really important information is never made available at least not in written form. A radioed double cypher might be easier to secure
WHY would anyone trust all of their passwords to be kept in any one place? Crazy.
Yes!
You’ve got to figure it got hacked long ago, but the hackers have kept it close to the vest.
We need the contents to be made public.
Just checked. My “post-it” note password manager has NOT been hacked and is still securely taped to the inside of my desk drawer.
My copy and paste is still okay.
The solution is simple, FRiend. We just implant everyone with a little microchip in their hand, or maybe their forehead. That chip can function as their “online identification security” widget, like the little keychain doohickeys that some banks are using for online security now.
We’ll key it to their vital signs, so if they die, or someone tries to cut it out, it self-destructs. Then we’ll make it so you need the implant to log on to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, or Youtube, to encourage universal adoption. What could go wrong?
I’ve been waiting since it first came on the market.
Sadly, many trust google’s cloud.
As a bigger and better paranoiac, it'll be a cold day in hell when I trust any cloud, anywhere, for any reason.
I did not trust the 1960s equivalent then, and I sure as hell don't trust the gazillion versions of today!
My private cloud : DVD backups. Read only.
they make 2 terrabyte hard drives now.
yesterday I saw a thin stick that plugs into a usb port the size of a door key
What?
Nothing serious.
Other than if someone could hack it, they could literally turn YOU off.
That could be serious.
Even 4 Tb ones, at reasonable prices.
But...
If 500 Gb drives can fail, 2 Tb drives can, too.
What's worse than having all your eggs in one basket??
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