A data breach is no picnic for any organization, but for a company that makes its potato salad by protecting other people’s passwords, it’s the mother of all nightmares. Yet, that has happened to LastPass twice. In 2011, the service found anomalies in its network traffic that forced it to reset all its users’ master passwords. To make matters worse, LastPass wasn’t prepared for the traffic surge from everyone trying to change their passwords at the same time, so performance headaches inconvenienced users further.
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Will LastPass Breach Poison Trust in Password Managers?
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. June 25, 2015 10:32 AMA data breach is no picnic for any organization, but for a company that makes its potato salad by protecting other people’s passwords, it’s the mother of all nightmares. Yet, that has happened to LastPass twice. In 2011, the service found anomalies in its network traffic that forced it to reset all its users’ master passwords. To make matters worse, LastPass wasn’t prepared for the traffic surge from everyone trying to change their passwords at the same time, so performance headaches inconvenienced users further.