One of the most popular password services, LastPass, appears to have downloaded an attack.
Passwords are essential in our daily lives, almost every service we use requires one. And precisely for reasons like this, it is advisable to have different passwords for each website or service. Last pass, one of the world’s most popular and widely used password managers, suffers an attack that pretends to access saved passwords users.
As reported by various users, many have received notifications from LastPass of login attempts
LastPass says they weren’t hacked
LastPass officially spoke up after the barrage of messages and they claim to have started investigating when the first users of the service warned of the situation. According to its conclusion, its application and system are completely safe and was not hacked.
“We are working quickly to investigate this activity and at this time we have no indication that a LastPass account has been compromised by an unauthorized third party as a result of this credential jam, and we do Found no indication that the user’s LastPass credentials were collected by malware, malicious browser extensions, or phishing campaigns.
According to reports, this is an attack of the type “Identifier stuffing”. This type of attack uses user email addresses and passwords obtained from security breaches suffered by other services. They then try to use those same credentials in LastPass so they can access a lot more passwords.
It is precisely for this reason, it is not recommended to use the same passwords in different services
Of course, LastPass states that after investigating the activity discovered that some of the alerts sent to users were sent the wrong way round. The platform’s security systems have therefore been readjusted.
Whether or not you have received these notifications, if you are a LastPass user, we recommend that you change your “master password”It’s never a bad time to do it, especially if it’s been a while since you last changed it.
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