Popular Password Manager, LastPass, Has Been Hacked, Luckily No Data Leaked

JAKARTA - The middle popular digital password manager, LastPass, announced that hackers had recently stolen parts of the company's source code and other sensitive data.

The company's chief executive said in a blog post that its user password was not affected.

"Our investigation does not show evidence of unauthorized access to customer data in our production environment," said CEO Karim Toubba in the post, published Thursday, August 25, as quoted by Reuters.

LastPass, which has more than 25 million users, works by combining hundreds of passwords that consumers and corporate users need to log into social media accounts, business networks, online retailers, and more.

Security professionals regularly recommend the use of unique and complex passwords for every website a person visits, so password managers like LastPass play an increasingly important role in maintaining people's data security online.

Compromising such key companies' passwords, passwords that protect other users' credentials, is always a nightmare scenario.

That's not what happened here, said Toubba. This incident does not harm your Main Password, said the post. The company advises users that no action is needed.

Several other details about the breach were revealed. The company said the hack occurred two weeks earlier and that a cybersecurity company had been hired to investigate. The company did not immediately respond to follow-up messages.