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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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[–] douglasg14b 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, they are horribly unreliable.

I got myself 5 sticks, put the same data on all 5.

1st was dead within a month. 2nd & 3rd both dead in 4m, 4th dead in 6m. The 5th is still alive 3 years later.

It's a shit lottery, don't play it, modern flash drives are absolutely garbage. Yet I still have a whole pile of 1,2, 4 GB flash drives from over a decade ago and they all still work.

[–] jarfil 3 points 1 year ago

Old flash drives used to be all SLC.

Newer ones, use the cheapest tech for the same capacity, with QLC being about 16 times less reliable than SLC.