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More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] vector_zero 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All it takes is a malicious program accessing your clipboard or running commands to find your password file while your machine is booted and decrypted.

[–] time_lord 5 points 1 year ago

If something happens to your SSD, you lose all access to everything. And SSDs can die without warning, and be un-recoverable.