People trust password managers, and when that trust isn’t upheld, it can prove costly — as LastPass has just discovered.

Q: I’m concerned about the recent breaches at LastPass, so I’m considering a switch to 1Password. Before making the switch and deleting my LastPass account, what should I know, or should I be using a ...

LastPass users will be prompted to change their master passwords after the online password locker company reported that its network was breached on Friday. The company revealed the breach in a blog ...

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It's not been the best couple of weeks for the password manager behemoth that is LastPass. First came the news that it is making the free version much less useful by limiting account holders to a ...

Today’s users have to have unique passwords for each account they use, and often, there are a lot of them. While keeping them in your head is the safest option possible, from a security standpoint, ...

LastPass faces $1.6 million fine from U.K. regulators after 2022 data breach exposed 1.6 million users. Password manager ...

LastPass in a blog post revealed that since April 2023, all new users and existing users who took steps to reset their master password were required to follow the 12-character limit. However, this ...

LastPass members have reported multiple attempted logins using correct master passwords from various locations, but the company has alternately said that the recent attacks are a result of shared ...

Many LastPass users report that their master passwords have been compromised after receiving email warnings that someone tried to use them to log into their accounts from unknown locations. The email ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

LastPass agreed to pay at least $8.2 million to settle allegations that the password manager failed to protect users’ personal information, as well as offer up to $16.25 million for cryptocurrency ...