Data breaches Password Management Passwords Web Fraud 
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 30, 2024
Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.
Krebs on Security
JULY 10, 2022
In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts. Turner said he created the account at Experian in 2020 to place a security freeze on his credit file, and that he used a password manager to select and store a strong, unique password for his Experian account.
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Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 22, 2023
The password manager service LastPass is now forcing some of its users to pick longer master passwords. But critics say the move is little more than a public relations stunt that will do nothing to help countless early adopters whose password vaults were exposed in a 2022 breach at LastPass.
Krebs on Security
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
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. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.
Krebs on Security
JULY 29, 2021
Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Here’s a closer look at what typically transpires in the weeks or months before an organization notifies its users about a breached database.
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