Toubba’s blog post, the hacked password vaults were encrypted-and the data secure-as long as the customer’s master password conformed to LastPass’s “default settings” and the customer followed the company’s “password best practices.” While it’s appalling that LastPass chose to be a Grinch and drop the bombshell notice during a festive period-when people are rejoicing with family and businesses are closed for the holidays-LastPass’s advice to customers whose vaults were hacked was equally shocking: maybe do nothing.Īccording to Mr. Karim Toubba, the chief executive officer of LastPass, warned in a December 22nd blog post about a data breach in which hackers copied a backup of customer vault data, resulting in potentially millions of passwords falling into the hands of cybercriminals. Three days before Christmas in 2022, LastPass, a company that promises to keep your passwords safe, handed its 33 million customers a lump of coal.
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