2022 LastPass data breach

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Two related security incidents were disclosed by the password manager LastPass in 2022. In the first incident, an attacker accessed parts of LastPass's development environment and exfiltrated source code repositories and technical documentation, including an encrypted copy of the key used to protect backups of customer data stored in Amazon S3. In a second incident, a senior DevOps engineer's personal computer was compromised, and the attacker used a keystroke logger to obtain the employee's credentials and access an internal vault holding further keys. According to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), this enabled access to and exfiltration of a backup database and copies of some customers' password vault data, which included both unencrypted fields (such as some website URLs) and encrypted fields (such as usernames and passwords). The breach prompted litigation and regulatory scrutiny, including a monetary penalty issued by the ICO in November 2025 against LastPass UK Ltd for...

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