LastPass Password Manager Breach

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LastPass breach

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Password managers are under threat in 2025. What the LastPass breach taught us.

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LastPass suffered a massive breach in August 2022 .

Hackers breached a password manager, a platform meant to protect your passwords and make it possible to use highly secure credentials for each of your logins.

The LastPass breach enabled the threat actor to obtain access to the "backup customer vault data" Hackers have realized that instead of wasting time breaking into one platform at a time when targeting a user, they can gain access to all of their login credentials.

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