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1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach
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this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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It wasn't 1Password that got breached, it was a 3rd party company called Okta, which 1Password was using in some capacity.
The attempted breach was detected and the hackers had only 1 set of Okta credentials from 1 member of the IT team. So they couldn't actually do much.
It was detected and immediately all the keys were changed so the hacker lost all access to Okta immediately.
No 1Password systems were affected at all.
Hypothetically even if the hackers somehow managed to get a customers vault, they would never be able to decrypt it because it requires 1. The master password AND 2. The very long and complex decryption key, which only the user posseses.
Even 1Password does not posses it so it's literally impossible for the vault to be hacked.
1Password is still by far THE most secure password manager.
Now that is a very confident statement. Any sources to back that up? Maybe even a comparison to other password managers like Bitwarden, LastPass, etc.?
Don't compare it to last pass, you'll have an answer very shortly
First password manager coming to mind because of such things.
Nothing is unhackable.
Hmm. Why don’t you let everyone know what you know about encryption. Or, let everyone know how much you don’t know about encryption by just stating, “Nothing is unhackable”.
Opsec is a treadmill. Everything is hackable. This is why companies hire penetration testers.
I mean... also, insecure things are eminently hackable and you don't know until someone has tried. That's the main reason companies hire penetration testers.
I think my knowledge suffices to say that equal to physical security no security is forever safe. At some point a weak point will be exposed.
And if you can get a hand on encrypted content and live long enough with the right ressources and determination you might be able to crack something.
Because afaik it's all math at some point. Math is logic and logic can be cracked.
Interesting. Currently, I guess if you have hundreds of years to sit at the most advanced computers currently available you too can crack modern encryption…