LastPass is a password manager. Users rely on it to store the myriad user names and passwords they inevitably collect as they go about their business on the Web. With LastPass, they only have to remember one single master password. LastPass handles the rest — including, presumably, security. That customer-company relationship was shaken this week when the site realized there were some network traffic anomalies — that is, unusual levels of data being transferred — on one of their servers. Possibly it was a hacker attack and if so, possibly data had been transferred including, possibly, stored master passwords.
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LastPass' Precautionary Move Sets Some Teeth on Edge
Posted by: Erika Morphy May 9, 2011 07:00 AMLastPass is a password manager. Users rely on it to store the myriad user names and passwords they inevitably collect as they go about their business on the Web. With LastPass, they only have to remember one single master password. LastPass handles the rest — including, presumably, security. That customer-company relationship was shaken this week when the site realized there were some network traffic anomalies — that is, unusual levels of data being transferred — on one of their servers. Possibly it was a hacker attack and if so, possibly data had been transferred including, possibly, stored master passwords.