LastPass May Have Been Hacked

Filed under: Identity Theft, Consumer Ally

LastPass, a password manager service that allows users to rely on a single master password to access all their online accounts, says hackers may have penetrated its database and made off with information on some 1.25 million customer accounts.

Although the company says it's still trying to determine if its servers were indeed hacked, it's playing it safe by operating under a worst-case scenario.

"We've chosen to assume the worst as we haven't found definitive evidence," CEO Joe Siegrist told Consumer Ally. "If we assume the worst, then potentially some data on all users could have been accessed."

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