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[OZ9000]

I've changed my Master Password.

I've had 2FA enabled forever.

Is my system secure?

I have more than 400 saved passwords on Lastpass. Should I ideally be changing them all? 90% of them are the same very simple password that I use in throwaway accounts eg forums, registering to websites

 

[Forsete]

Security Incident December 2022 Update - LastPass - The LastPass Blog

Please refer to the latest article for updated information.nbs[..]

blog.lastpass.com

Look under "What Should LastPass Customers Do? "

• Since 2018, we have required a twelve-character minimum for master passwords. This greatly minimizes the ability for successful brute force password guessing.
• To further increase the security of your master password, LastPass utilizes a stronger-than-typical implementation of 100,100 iterations of the Password-Based Key Derivation Function (PBKDF2), a password-strengthening algorithm that makes it difficult to guess your master password. You can check the current number of PBKDF2 iterations for your LastPass account here.
• We also recommend that you never reuse your master password on other websites. If you reuse your master password and that password was ever compromised, a threat actor may use dumps of compromised credentials that are already available on the Internet to attempt to access your account (this is referred to as a “credential stuffing” attack).

If you use the default settings above, it would take millions of years to guess your master password using generally-available password-cracking technology. Your sensitive vault data, such as usernames and passwords, secure notes, attachments, and form-fill fields, remain safely encrypted based on LastPass’ Zero Knowledge architecture. There are no recommended actions that you need to take at this time.

However, it is important to note that if your master password does not make use of the defaults above, then it would significantly reduce the number of attempts needed to guess it correctly. In this case, as an extra security measure, you should consider minimizing risk by changing passwords of websites you have stored.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[SJRB]

Your fucked what?

 

[daffyduck]

 

[ipukespiders]

Seems odd to trust your passwords to a service.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Why do you have 400 passwords, how paranoid are you and is your tinfoil hat on?

 

[VN1X]

Why do you have 400 passwords, how paranoid are you and is your tinfoil hat on?

Huh, why don't you have this amount? My Dashlane is host to about 369 of 'em.

Don't tell me you don't 'salt your data' online?

 

[The Cockatrice]

Huh, why don't you have this amount? My Dashlane is host to about 369 of 'em.

Don't tell me you don't 'salt your data' online?

 

[RJMacready73]

Way I figured who the fuck is gonna hack Google and I know whose behind Google, all these other programs... Could be anyone or anything

 

[PSYGN]

Way I figured who the fuck is gonna hack Google and I know whose behind Google, all these other programs... Could be anyone or anything

Do what now?

 

[ReBurn]

My company makes us use LastPass. I still use KeePass though. I keep my KeePass file on OneDrive so I don't lose it.

 

[The Pleasure]

My company makes us use LastPass. I still use KeePass though. I keep my KeePass file on OneDrive so I don't lose it.

I keep reading this as KeeP ass

 

[ReBurn]

I keep reading this as KeeP ass

Always good advice

 

[PonyStation4]

What they have access to
-Vault data, including all the urls and notes you put in
-Name
-Email
-Address
-IP
-Phone #

What they don't have access to
-Your master password and passwords for individual urls

Unless you have an easy to guess master password, it could take thousands to millions of years to figure it out. Worst case scenario is they email and blackmail you for things such as having an account at Resetera

 

[daveonezero]

Seems odd to trust your passwords to a service.

You aren’t. It’s to an encryption algorithm

 

[Sonik]

I've changed my Master Password.

I've had 2FA enabled forever.

Is my system secure?

I have more than 400 saved passwords on Lastpass. Should I ideally be changing them all? 90% of them are the same very simple password that I use in throwaway accounts eg forums, registering to websites

Ideally you should never use an online service to save your password, ever. Never, ever. And yes, change your passwords, even if they're not compromised now they eventually will be

 

[daveonezero]

Ideally you should never use an online service to save your password, ever. Never, ever. And yes, change your passwords, even if they're not compromised now they eventually will be

using a password manager is better than using weak passwords.

It’s better than using a browser to save passwords.

Using a centralized server to access them is really not that big of a deal. All of these companies use open standard encryption and usually pass audits.

If you don’t want to have someone else’s server storing them you can self hose with bitwarden or keepass.

Generally it’s the best way to increase security and first step someone should take.

 

[eddie4]

This is why I self-host with bitwarden.

 

[Ownage]

rekt

 

[TransTrender]

rekt

Checks out

 

[Goalus]

Your fucked what?

Your fucked accounts?
Still missing a verb though.
Possibly:
"Your fucked accounts are not really fucked, but also kind of are."

 

[OZ9000]

What they have access to
-Vault data, including all the urls and notes you put in
-Name
-Email
-Address
-IP
-Phone #

What they don't have access to
-Your master password and passwords for individual urls

Unless you have an easy to guess master password, it could take thousands to millions of years to figure it out. Worst case scenario is they email and blackmail you for things such as having an account at Resetera

Lmao

 

[OZ9000]

Why do you have 400 passwords, how paranoid are you and is your tinfoil hat on?

Over the last 10 years signing up to random forums or websites and logins for every goddamn service eg ubisoft, steam, blizzard, online retailers. Every website seems to want you to register.

I don't use any of them tbh.

I don't know if I have the willpower to change all these passwords. They're all the same and a very simple phrase.

However any website linked to finances or banking or online shopping I will certainly change the password. I'll also change my email address password.

I will assume it's very difficult to get in my vault because it's a 20 char password with a combination of lower case, upper case and special characters.

 

[RoadHazard]

Over the last 10 years signing up to random forums or websites and logins for every goddamn service eg ubisoft, steam, blizzard, online retailers. Every website seems to want you to register.

I don't use any of them tbh.

I don't know if I have the willpower to change all these passwords. They're all the same and a very simple phrase.

However any website linked to finances or banking or online shopping I will certainly change the password. I'll also change my email address password.

I will assume it's very difficult to get in my vault because it's a 20 char password with a combination of lower case, upper case and special characters.

You're fine, they're not gonna spend years and years trying to brute force your specific master password.

This leak is obviously shit, but your passwords are only in danger if your master password is easily guessable.

 

[winjer]

Good thing I deleted my account on Lastpass a few years ago and switched to Bitwarden.

 

[OZ9000]

Good thing I deleted my account on Lastpass a few years ago and switched to Bitwarden.

Does bitwarden work on both mobile and PC/multiple accounts well?

 

[winjer]

Does bitwarden work on both mobile and PC/multiple accounts well?

Yes. There is a mobile app and browser extensions.

 

[V1LÆM]

you'll probably be fine as i don't think they can actually see your login details (usernames/passwords) but i wouldn't take the risk. definitely change the passwords on your most important accounts at the very least. change as many passwords as you possibly can. 400 is a lot....

maybe take this opportunity to ditch lastpass. this isn't the first time they've been hacked. i highly recommend bitwarden. it's totally free (with paid options). it's worked on my PC (both windows + linux), my iphone, my android, and even in my firefox browser. i'm sure it also works in chrome/edge too. bitwarden is open source and if you're really concerned you have the option to self host it. i don't know how to do it so i need to put my trust in bitwarden to host it. i trust them far more than lastpass and even if it is ever hacked nobody is going to get my passwords unless they know my master password.

if you asked me my master password i wouldn't be able to tell you but i can type it out real fucking fast due to muscle memory. i do have it written down but i keep it locked away in a box.

 

[poppabk]

Don't worry some nice fellows from the dark web are changing them all for you right now.