TL;DR: Last Pass is broken. All passwords at the time of the breach were taken. They also got internal secrets from a laptop and can now probably throw computational power at anything they want to decrypt.

Switch. Do not use. Change everything you have if you were using it. Treat everything as breached.

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    • edge [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      You need to be able to access randomly generated passwords (which all your passwords should be) from any device. Password managers lose a lot of usefulness if they aren't online.

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        • edge [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          No? All your passwords absolutely should be randomly generated and unique per website, something you can't keep track of on your own. The solution is a password manager that syncs to all your devices.

      • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]
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        2 years ago

        What you do is use one that has locally encrypted/decrypted databases and authentication and store the database as an encrypted file in a cloud storage service. The service itself therefore no longer matters, only keeping your master password safe matters and the file online is useless without your master password. The service therefore never holds even so much as keys for your database and it is impossible without compromising your end devices to access your passwords.

        • edge [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          That's the same as a password manager but much less convenient. Password managers don't store keys in their database, your master password is the key.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      lastpass stores them encrypted only, like every other password manager. It decrpyts on your local computer.

    • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I was under the impression that lastpass was storing passwords encrypted and even when you use their website without the browser extension it decrypts locally.

      That’s what Bitwarden claims as well and seems to be standard across the different services.

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        • groundling20XX [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          This isn’t too realistic even if someone has a cracking program based on the way LastPass encrypts information. Even after this breach your passwords in LastPass are probably still safe, but you should rotate your mfa.

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            • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Brute forcing encrypted data takes a monumental and in most cases nonexistent amount of computational power.

              I don’t expect it to stay that way, but realistically speaking it’s not something to worry about.

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                • xXthrowawayXx [none/use name]
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                  2 years ago

                  not in this case. lastpass, like all the other password managers i know of and a bunch of other cryptographic services, don't handle the master passphrase in plaintext when theyre receiving it from the app or browser or whatever, so at worst when they apply it to the encrypted block of data that represents the users other passwords it's salted, hashed and expanded out to the length required by the encryption strength. at that point it doesn't matter how strong or weak the master password that was used is or isn't.

                  for the purposes of brute forcing the encrypted file.

                  if they're doing the absolute bare minimum to have the user data in a file encrypted by the master password.

                  it really seems like im defending those ding dongs so uhh... let me be clear: i haven't used lastpass for about seven years now.