

Now, nearly a week since the disclosure, the company has not provided additional information to confused and worried customers. The details LastPass provided about the situation a week ago were worrying enough that security professionals quickly started calling for users to switch to other services. For the security service's 25.6 million users, though, the company made a worrying announcement on December 22: A security incident the firm had previously reported (on November 30) was actually a massive and concerning data breach that exposed encrypted password vaults-the crown jewels of any password manager-along with other user data.

And if you finally took the plunge with a free and mainstream option, particularly during the 2010s, it was probably LastPass. You've heard it again and again: You need to use a password manager to generate strong, unique passwords and keep track of them for you.
