The reason is fairly simple: if you don’t trust the software, you’re less likely to use it. It’s important that you use a password manager. Therefore, it’s important you trust your password manager. If this or any other situation leads you to trust LastPass (or any software) less, then use something else that you do trust. In the case of LastPass, that means investigating a different password manager. I totally understand why, reacting only to the headlines and without understanding the details, you might feel like you need to make a switch. I have an upcoming article on exactly which password managers you might want to consider. There are many decent and reliable alternatives.īut LastPass remains at the top of my list. In short, the account of a LastPass developer was compromised. Using that account, hackers were able to get into LastPass source code. Apparently some of it was stolen, and some of it contained what LastPass considered to be trade secrets. The important thing to realize about the breach is that no user information was compromised. In other words, as a LastPass user, my account credentials were not compromised, my LastPass vault was not compromised, my LastPass stored information was not compromised, and none of the entries in my LastPass database were compromised. LastPass’s announcement goes into more detail, but the bottom line for the average user is that you are not affected. They were forthcoming about the details of the breach. They provided a detailed FAQ that consumers can refer to understand exactly how worried they should be. My take is that LastPass has done the right thing.
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