{"id":472159,"date":"2022-12-01T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=472159"},"modified":"2022-12-01T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T06:53:56","slug":"worlds-biggest-password-manager-suffers-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/472159-worlds-biggest-password-manager-suffers-data-breach.html","title":{"rendered":"World’s biggest password manager suffers data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Password manager LastPass has suffered another data breach where an unauthorised party gained access to customer information, the company revealed in a blog post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

LastPass says it detected unusual activity on a third-party cloud storage service, adding that it has alerted law enforcement and is investigating the breach.<\/p>\n

LastPass and its affiliate GoTo share the cloud storage service.<\/p>\n

The company said its customers’ passwords remain encrypted because of LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.<\/p>\n

“We are working diligently to understand the scope of the incident and identify what specific information has been accessed,” it said.<\/p>\n

“In the meantime, we can confirm that LastPass products and services remain fully functional.”<\/p>\n

LastPass has determined that the unauthorised party accessed its customers’ information using information acquired during an earlier data breach<\/a><\/strong> in August 2022.<\/p>\n

At the time, an unauthorised party gained access to LastPass’s developer environment \u2014 the software its employees use to build and maintain the platform.<\/p>\n

After breaking into the password manager’s systems, they managed to steal source code and proprietary information.<\/p>\n

The company said the adversaries gained access through a single compromised developer’s account.<\/p>\n

In September 2022, LastPass revealed that the perpetrator had access to its systems for four days, adding that its password vaults remained untouched<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Attackers exploit trending TikTok challenge to spread malware<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The attacker used information acquired during a breach in August 2022 to access customer data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":458081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26872,83011,31054,57728],"class_list":["post-472159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-data-breach","tag-goto","tag-lastpass","tag-password-manager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472161,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472159\/revisions\/472161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}