That means full access to your emails, bank accounts, healthcare data, tax information, social media accounts – you name it.Īccording to LastPass, hackers may attempt to use brute force to guess your master password and decrypt the copies of vault data they took.
Should they manage to crack your master password, they can take over your online life. Hackers now have a copy of your entire password vault. Please contact the 24/7 IT Help Desk at +1-412-624-HELP (4357) if you have any questions regarding this announcement.All 30 million LastPass (opens in new tab) users, with data stored on the company servers as of August 2022, are at risk. If you have a LastPass Business (formerly LastPass Enterprise) account, it is already protected by the University’s Multifactor Authentication Service (Duo). MFA will protect your LastPass account in the event the password becomes compromised. If you have a personal LastPass account, enable multifactor authentication (MFA) protection.Make sure your LastPass master password is strong, unique, and sufficiently random.In the meantime, Pitt IT encourages LastPass users to keep in mind these security tips: Details about the incident, as well as additional updates, will be posted to the LastPass website. LastPass is working to understand the scope of the incident and identify what specific customer information has been accessed. Although LastPass indicates that customers do not need to take any action in response to this incident, Pitt Information Technology is reaching out directly to Pitt users with a LastPass Business account in case they would like to change their LastPass master passphrase out of an abundance of caution. If you use Password Manager (LastPass), please be assured that your passwords remain safely encrypted and all data stored in your LastPass vault remains secure.
LastPass, the provider for the University’s Password Manager service, is investigating a security incident involving a cloud storage service that is used by LastPass and its affiliate, GoTo.
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