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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious…

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago

Cloud based systems can be perfectly sound. You can read how other managers do it, which are also audited by security experts. It's just LastPass being bad.

And sure, local can be more secure, but you're then at higher risk of losing access to it, should the worst happen.