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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)

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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

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[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LastPass didn’t actually encrypt your entire vault. They only encrypted the passwords. The rest of the vault, (which would be comprised of usernames and the sites that are associated with them, notes

Wait a moment... now I wonder how many people kept their crypto wallet recovery word lists as notes instead of as passwords.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Geez I do this in 1 password.

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