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LastPass: ‘Horse Gone Barn Bolted’ is Strong Password

Krebs on Security

By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. Still, Palant and others impacted by the 2022 breach at LastPass say their account security settings were never forcibly upgraded. Palant said that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.”

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