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LastPass acknowledges customer data breach. Could crypto wallet logins have prevented this?

LastPass first disclosed the breach in August 2022 but at that time, it appeared that the attacker had only obtained source code and technical information, not any customer data. However, the company has investigated and discovered that the attacker used this technical information to attack another employee’s device, which was then used to obtain keys to customer data stored in a cloud storage system.

The statement from LastPass emphasizes that the service uses state-of-the-art encryption to make it very difficult for an attacker to read vault files without knowing the Master Password, stating: Even so, LastPass admits that if a customer has used a weak Master Password, the attacker may be able to use brute force to guess this password, allowing them to decrypt the vault and gain all of the customers’ website passwords, as LastPass explains:

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