Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker’s Stash , a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. A screenshot of a website reviewing PM2BTC.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

.” LastPass declined to answer questions about the research highlighted in this story, citing an ongoing law enforcement investigation and pending litigation against the company in response to its 2022 data breach. As it happens, Plex announced its own data breach one day before LastPass disclosed its initial August intrusion.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. The more iterations, the longer it takes an offline attacker to crack your master password. Palant said that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.” And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

. “They compound the problem by gating the recovery process with information that’s likely available or inferable from third party data brokers, or that could have been exposed in previous data breaches,” Roan said. 2015: Experian Breach Affects 15 Million Customers.

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