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Cale Hunt

"The majority of the attacks allow recovery of passwords" — New research suggests your favorite password manager might not be as secure as you thought

The logo for online password manager service "LastPass" is reflected on the internal discs of a hard drive.

I've long been someone concerned about data security and privacy. I grew up in a time when your passwords were kept securely in your own organic memory if not jotted down on a page somewhere, so the rise of password managers felt like a godsend.

A place to securely store all passwords (and more) for all accounts? Accessible across your devices? Too convenient to pass up. And yet, I still didn't trust my password manager with the "big" credentials; those, I kept tucked away in my head.

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