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LastPass password manager hacked
CBS News ^ | 06/16/2015 | AMANDA SCHUPAK

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 123456; lastpass; password; windowspinglist
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1 posted on 06/16/2015 4:00:20 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

I’m waiting for Lifelock to be hacked.


2 posted on 06/16/2015 4:02:27 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Kid Shelleen

Guess I’ll still keep using PASsWRd and 123456.


3 posted on 06/16/2015 4:04:40 PM PDT by Yaelle ("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way...")
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To: MUDDOG

I’m waiting for Hillary’s homebrew email server to be hacked.


4 posted on 06/16/2015 4:04:44 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

That’s why bank robbers rob banks.


5 posted on 06/16/2015 4:04:56 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Kid Shelleen

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!


6 posted on 06/16/2015 4:10:38 PM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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To: Kid Shelleen

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


7 posted on 06/16/2015 4:11:52 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: Kid Shelleen

WHY would anyone trust all of their passwords to be kept in any one place? Crazy.


8 posted on 06/16/2015 4:12:02 PM PDT by MeganC (You can ignore reality, but reality won't ignore you.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


9 posted on 06/16/2015 4:12:54 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Kid Shelleen
It's easier and safer to just remember 1-2-3-4-5.


10 posted on 06/16/2015 4:14:05 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Just checked. My “post-it” note password manager has NOT been hacked and is still securely taped to the inside of my desk drawer.


11 posted on 06/16/2015 4:17:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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My copy and paste is still okay.


12 posted on 06/16/2015 4:20:45 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Fai Mao

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?


13 posted on 06/16/2015 4:30:57 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Kid Shelleen
Buy an olde timey address book and write a separate unique password for each web site/username in it...


14 posted on 06/16/2015 4:33:15 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: MUDDOG

I’ve been waiting since it first came on the market.

Sadly, many trust google’s cloud.


15 posted on 06/16/2015 4:52:30 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: LibWhacker
It’ll be a cold day in Hades before I trust all my data to a third party!

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.

16 posted on 06/16/2015 5:57:06 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: Yaelle

17 posted on 06/16/2015 5:58:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: publius911

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


18 posted on 06/16/2015 5:59:54 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: Boogieman
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?

What?

Nothing serious.
Other than if someone could hack it, they could literally turn YOU off.

That could be serious.

19 posted on 06/16/2015 6:02:47 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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To: bert
they make 2 terrabyte hard drives now.

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??

20 posted on 06/16/2015 6:06:12 PM PDT by publius911 (If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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