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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 150 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Nearly every victim was a LastPass user.

But every victim was a cryptocurrency user.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'd be willing to bet that people store their key phrases in the notes section in LastPass which was not encrypted at rest

[–] hatchling@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is incorrect information. Notes are encrypted, just not their "type". Unfortunately the most direct source for this is a reddit link, but here it is anyway.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

okay thanks for that I was going off of an earlier report

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