Have those passwords already been cracked somehow? A different sort of breach
The crooks still need to crack those master passwords first, a task that might take weeks, years, decades or even longer, for every user, depending on how wisely those passwords had been chosen.īad choices such as 123456 and iloveyou were probably be rumbled within the first few hours of cracking, but less predictable combinations such as DaDafD$&RaDogS or tVqFHAAPTjTUmOax will almost certainly hold out for far longer than it would take to change the passwords in your vault.īut if LifeLock just suffered a breach, and the company is warning that someone else already knew some users’ account passwords, and perhaps also the master password for all their other passwords… In LastPass’s case, fortunately, the stolen passwords weren’t of direct and immediate use to the attackers, because each user’s password vault was protected by a master password, which wasn’t stored by LastPass and therefore wasn’t stolen at the same time. We recommend you change your passwords with us and elsewhere immediately.Īs opening paragraphs go, this one is pretty straightforward, and contains uncomplicated if potentially time-consuming advice: someone other than you probably knows your Norton account password they may have been able to peek into your password manager as well please change all passwords as soon as you can.īut what actually happened here, and was this a breach in the conventional sense?Īfter all, LastPass, another well-known name in the password management game, recently announced not only that it had suffered a network intrusion, but also that customer data, including encrypted passwords, had been stolen. alerted us that an unauthorized party likely has knowledge of the email and password you have been using with your Norton account and your Norton Password Manager. We are writing to notify you of an incident involving your personal information. The letter starts with a dread-sounding salutation that says: The warning letter can be viewed online, for example on the website of the Office of the Vermont Attorney General, where it appears under the title NortonLifeLock – Gen Digital Data Breach Notice to Consumers.
Earlier this month, the NortonLifeLock online identity protection service, owned by Arizona-based technology company Gen Digital, sent a security warning to many of its customers.
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