{"id":695,"date":"2022-12-24T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/2022\/12\/24\/i-think-i-will-keep-lastpass\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:22:18","slug":"i-think-i-will-keep-lastpass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/2022\/12\/24\/i-think-i-will-keep-lastpass\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I will keep LastPass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LastPass was recently hacked and the hacker was able to steal keys from a developer which had access to the company&#8217;s backup files. In the backup files, the hacker could use the decryption keys he stole from the developer to create something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">somesite.com,&lt;plaintext_username&gt;,&lt;hashed_password&gt;<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I can assume my data has been leaked. I am a LastPass user; however, I do not think this is good reason for my departure from LastPass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time a hacker was able to get this sort of information from LastPass. I was also a LastPass user during that time and my passwords were never compromised after than hack. The Zero-knowledge password storing employed by LastPass seems to have worked in the past, and I anticipate it being sufficient again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a safety precaution, I went ahead and changed my financial passwords, but other than that step, is there anything else that needs to be done? Perhaps I will change my Master password once more. If LastPass gets hacked again, at least all my SHAs will be different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LastPass was recently hacked and the hacker was able to steal keys from a developer which had access to the company&#8217;s backup files. In the backup files, the hacker could use the decryption keys he stole from the developer to create something like: somesite.com,&lt;plaintext_username&gt;,&lt;hashed_password&gt; I can assume my data has been leaked. I am a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11],"tags":[61,81,153,52,74],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewwippler.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}