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Millions of LastPass users may be at risk after a major breach of the home computer of one of their top employees. This employee was only one of four people in the company with access to their corporate vault. The breach may have come through a home Plex media account, according to Ars Technica, and appears to have been perpetrated by the same hackers who breached LastPass security on a smaller scale last August. At about the same time, Plex’s security was also breached.

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...