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Lewis Maddison

LastPass: The lessons we learnt from our devastating breach

LastPass

It's been over half a year since LastPass suffered its catastrophic breach, but still the memory lingers, and for good reason. Despite handling the most sensitive of user information, the company succumbed to the worst possible fate for such a service: backups of users' entire vaults stolen from right under the company's nose. 

The saving grace is that fortunately, users' passwords remained encrypted, and there has been no evidence so far to suggest the thief has managed to crack them. However, other personal data, such as billing addresses and email addresses, were not encrypted by LastPass, so remains out in the open.

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