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Password Manager LastPass Gets Hacked

June 18, 2015

It seems like we hear of at least one data breach a week these days. One of the latest victims is LastPass, a popular password manager for storing all of your passwords. According to a post on its website, “LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, and authentication hashes were compromised.” The data contained in a user’s encrypted vault was not compromised, which is a good thing. Obviously, the recommendation is to change your master password.

I know a lot of folks use LastPass, but I’ve never been a fan of putting your login passwords in the cloud. I would much rather have control over my encrypted vault, which is why I use eWallet as my password manager. Besides having my encrypted vault stored locally and backed up, I synchronize with my mobile devices so that my credentials (passwords, frequent flyer numbers, hotel rewards numbers, passport information, etc.) are accessible on my smartphone when I travel. There are many choices of password managers that store data in the cloud or locally. No matter which one you use, make sure your master password is a strong one.

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