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LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

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Why This Matters

The recent data breach involving LastPass highlights ongoing security challenges in the password management industry, especially when third-party integrations are compromised. This incident underscores the importance for consumers and businesses to remain vigilant about potential phishing and social engineering threats, even when core password vaults are unaffected. It also emphasizes the need for robust third-party security practices and proactive threat detection.

Key Takeaways

LastPass users are once again being warned about stolen personal data, though this time the breach happened through one of the company’s outside partners. Here are the details.

LastPass says password vaults not affected

As reported by TechCrunch, LastPass is emailing users affected by a breach at market research firm Klue, which allowed hackers to access customer information and support case data.

The news came as LastPass shared more information on a blog post, where it explained:

The information accessed was limited to standard business contact information and related customer relationship management (CRM) data, including customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses, as well as support case data and sales-related data.

LastPass said that upon learning about the incident, the company revoked employee access to Klue, rotated the exposed API tokens, notified law enforcement, and launched “a detailed investigation into the scope of the event, working with our contacts at both Klue and Salesforce.”

The company explains that Klue’s platform integrates with Salesforce and Gong systems.

As a result, LastPass is recommending that customers “remain vigilant of potential phishing attacks or social engineering attempts” leveraging the compromised information. LastPass also shared the following IP addresses and email sender domains associated with the attackers, which companies can use to search for related activity in their systems:

IP Addresses: 138.226.246[.]94

94.154.32[.]160

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