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Personal or Business Use, LastPass’s Leaked Vaults Could Pose Risk to Your Business

If you haven’t already, switch to an open source password manager that doesn’t place hints, like URLs, dark web monitoring details, security scoring information sensitive information, to your secrets in plain text.

If your company doesn’t use LastPass you should actively block it as a company service so personal usage doesn’t pose a risk to your business.

If you have access to sensitive enterprise information or systems you should change all of your passwords since malicious actors may attempt to brute force your master password.

If you use LastPass, you're likely going to get phishing attacks directed at you so be prepared.If you thought your LastPass vault was encrypted, it’s not, so keep reading.If you haven’t added MFA, you need to add it to as many accounts as possible.If you're using an 8- to 10-character master password, you need to change it right now.If you are a LastPass user, you need to immediately take action to protect yourself and your organization from potential damage.

This very serious leak brings into question the amount of trust companies place in closed source password management solutions and what you should do if your LastPass vault has been stolen. The newly expanded scope of the LastPass breach has stirred the cybersecurity industry turning LastPass users into high-risk targets and shaken the confidence of zero-knowledge password manager users. Hackers have had their hands on LastPass user’s vaults for weeks, maybe even months since LastPass has yet to confirm the original breach date, leaving us all wondering how many of LastPass’s 25.6 million users are going to be among the next very targeted attack. LastPass users are now learning the unfortunate security incident they were previously notified of was actually a colossal data breach that exposed encrypted password vaults-the keys to the castle of any password manager-along with other private data.