What happens if lastpass gets hacked

Wouldn't that just give hackers access to all of my accounts? Is LastPass safe to use? Dear Password, Your worry is a common one: if LastPass stores all your passwords in the cloud, what's to stop someone from hacking them and then getting into all your other accounts? Thankfully, it's not so simple. First of all, let's remember that LastPass—as a security-focused app—is dedicated to security in a way many services are not. Even when LastPass thought they might have gotten hacked back in , they notified their users immediately, and forced a master password change if you tried to access it from a new computer.

Furthermore, like any other service, you should be using two-factor authentication with LastPass. If you do, someone with your master password still will not be able to access your account, even in the event of a breach. If you want to take it to the next level, you can put together this awesome thumb drive-based system and enable these features for extra two-factor security. Form Autofill Automatically fill in online logins, forms, payment information, and more with LastPass autofill.

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Step 1. Click "Allow". Step 2. Click "Install" and LastPass will be installed in under a minute. Step 3. Create your account. Add to browser Create Account. Good luck! I downloaded LastPass to see how it works.

I loaded one item with password, then-exited the app. Upon retrying the app i clicked and Last Pass i saw the entry and password. I never was asked to use vault password to get into the app?

How safe is this app if you do not have to have password to get into the vault? If a local copy of your vault is decrypted and on your computer, how is this safe? Could this database be hacked? Any program, extension, app could be looking for such data. The local copy of your database is also heavily encrypted. It is stored encrypted on your hard drive and only decrypted when the master password is supplied.

My guess is that it is only decrypted for the specific purpose necessary — filling in a password field, say. One of the things that makes Lastpass more secure is that they do not store your master password. You must remember it. I have tried Dashlane, 1password, and Lastpass. Lastpass is the best for me. I might also add that anything could happen to me at any time. So, I regularly export my Lastpass vault content, print it, and put it in my home safe, and shred the previous one. That pretty much covers me for the vast majority of situations.

A suggestion for remembering your master password: 1. Create a file with dozens of lines of what might be passwords. Hide your master password amongst them 3. Add 1, 2 or 3 characters at the beginning or end. Change 1 or more characters in the password to something else 5. Change capitalisation of one or more letters in the password. Reverse a couple of characters. Do any or all of the above. Email it to yourself with a title you will remember 9.

Do similar with hints as to what you did and hide them within other hints. Send that file to a different email address. Now you CAN retrieve your master password with a bit of work. Admittedly the above is overkill but it is easy to disguise your master password so you should be able to find it but is extremely unlikely someone else will.

I have used LastPass since shortly after its release in , over 10 years. I was very happy until recently — not that I have given up just yet. I understand why and how, but I pity all the non-techies. It was obviously created by a few dedicated and talented coders. But, as is the norm, success brought value and value brought buyers. My first clue was the tripling of the Premium subscription price with the buy-out by LogMeIn. I think Jon Jan 19 has it right.

I coped with this mentality for years with one of the largest EMR companies. So many coders with so many bosses at crossed purposes with mixed motives. Thank you for the info, Bruce. I use both ios on an iPhone and Windows on a PC, so I decided yesterday to try LastPass and have spent several hours today trying to climb the learning curve. The info is your article and the comments is invaluable and convinced me to carry on.

Thanks again. Absolutely amazing, this page and support requests. I mean, wow, overwhelming.. I was looking at what safari made me do to access Lastpass. Install an app and not provide the standard Extension: : I looked for the version number and saw they had introduced list of third parties. Whats with that? Third-Party Software Licenses Portions of LastPass software use third-party libraries; their licenses are reproduced here in accordance with their licensing terms.

These terms only apply to the libraries themselves, not LastPass software. I am trying to boycott google and Use the new browser, Brave : : and it worked flawless until a few days ago.

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Copy this answer Set up an app integration so that your user can sign into this app using the same credentials that they use for LastPass. You should be able to log in to LastPass and see your vault when offline. As for online access, there is an option in Advanced settings to stop LastPass working in different locations.

Make sure France is enabled. I have never encountered the problem of not being able to login to LP because of a forgotten password, my own password is very secure but memorable. However, I have a different wrinkle. Even with the correct Lastpass master password I was refused entry because I was in a new location.

I was sent an email with verification details in it which I had to respond to before entry would be allowed. Access your email for the verification process. No help, no comprehension, apparently my own fault. This is a fatal flaw and the only way around it I could see was to actually create a unique separate email account only for Lastpass verification giving it a simple memorable password. This account would only be used in the event of having to go through that ridiculous process of verification.

If it requires its own email account just for the rare need to access it under these circumstances then it is really over the top and becoming unusable. I can understand the idea of verifying if access is attempted from a remote place but it would be better to at least allow the option of verification of user via mobile text message just as credit cards and banks do. This is a lot less than Lastpass per year. And, guess what, SS Premium has its own password manager built in!

Guess what…. Tedious writing from a world class blowhard. Having proven yourself so untrustworthy at our introduction, what on earth makes you think we should value the rest of your ramblings? Thank you! Keep an eye out. I used to be an Avid fan of Lastpass, I would tell everyone about how great it was, but that was then and this is now. Next comes performance, Lastpass seems to turn browsers into snails, makes their memory go through the roof and makes everything go slow slow slow.

So I tried the mobile versions, on an Iphone, it just does not work the way you would want, keychain does work so you abandon Lastpass. I tried different browsers, Opera, Brave, Chrome in addition to Firefox, it does not work well on any of them, slow and clunky, poor UI, just awful. What needs to happen here is for the code to be properly documented, the team then need to be split up and the whole thing rewritten to be lightweight and functional.

Right now this product is begging for a competitor to take an export and import it, except guess what, if you export all your data, yes it is YOUR data, they do not give you all of the data stored, notes are not there, not all fields are exported, so you are screwed again.

I tried contacting support, apparently the original developer is in there shutting down any negative posts, I asked people if I pay will they fix this, the answer came back, save your money. An update a few months ago slowed LastPass to a crawl in Chrome. I sadly agree much so. This has been my grip for a long time…and since v4. The overuse of whitespace makes this not pleasant to use.

The emergency backup features are nice, we use the family plan and can cover for each other in the event of the unexpected. I just read that you have to download to iPhone through the App Store—you have to download the App. In fact, Lastpass wrote a blog post a few days ago about the Safari extension, with step-by-step instructions about how to get started and what to expect. I have not signed up for LastPass.

I have this question. Safari is my browser. Does it work on Safari? Is it preferable to use Chrome? How big a deal is it to change browsers?

Have downloaded the app, and tried to get the extension going but no success. Instructions say to open the app, and then tap the Tools button at the bottom. Any suggestions? Do some Googling, somebody has to have been in this position. Thanks for the article and replies to comments Bruce — quite instructive.

Now for the dumb question. If LP stores my vault information on their servers ie there is no local storage on my devices and for some reason LP servers are out of service, is my vault and therefore vicariously my access to sites needing passwords I have stored in the vault effectively inaccessible? Many thanks in advance. You can use LastPass on a PC or phone in airplane mode. The encrypted vault is synced to the LastPass servers online.

If you get a second device, the encrypted vault is copied to local storage on the second device where it can be decrypted. Try my site. Let me know what you think it needs. Not sure whether this will answer your question: your computer has a single encrypted copy of the Lastpass vault.

A few months ago I began subscribing to a Lastpass account and got beyond the point in the process where I had made up a Lastpass password when I was interrupted and had to stop before completing the process. Days later I returned to the project, but found that my email address is not eligible because it already had already been associated with the password I had previously chosen, but had not written down yet.

How can I just cancel everything I did with Lastpass before and start over? See if it works to reset your account. No response. But my advice is to steer clear of LastPass. Does LastPass have the ability to detect that when using the password generator feature for those websites? Not in my experience, but it has checkmarks on the little window that generates secure passwords so you can turn on or off special characters and set the length. Today I have lost the ability to log into LastPass.

Absolutely clickbait! But only the stupid headline. The article is filled with nutritious, tasty content made with only the finest quality ingredients. Good article and with great comments for more info about LastPass. There are lots of bad fruits in the world aka Mr. Weber and they are not going anywhere. The rules are just rules. Remember remember the lastpass master password until they come up with another type of login like fingerprint or eye scanning, or whatever….