LastPass Hacked?
Posted: 06 May 2011, 08:44
pcworld.com wrote:The CEO of password management company LastPass says it's highly unlikely hackers gained access to his millions of users' data--but that he doesn't want to take any chances.
Speaking exclusively with PCWorld, LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist explained how his company came to the conclusion that its servers, which provide cross-platform password storage for millions of customers, may have been accessed by an outside party. Just one day earlier, LastPass announced via its blog that it had noticed a "network traffic anomaly" and was implementing additional security as a result.
- :- determine you're too lazy to remember passwords
:- decide it would be brilliant to store all your passwords in the cloud
:- against all probability someone decides to try and hack this single data store of collective credentials
:- ???
:- lose the game