Right before Christmas, LastPass dropped a bombshell report explaining that bad actors appeared to have made copies of LastPass users’ encrypted password vaults. The information was a little short on key details, probably indicating that the investigation is ongoing and we will learn more in the coming weeks. However, we have already learned enough to know that the data breach did leak some important metadata contained in people’s password vaults and that any users who had less-than-secure master passwords should be worried that the encrypted contents may now be vulnerable to disclosure. That is about as bad as it gets. Today I will speak with a cybersecurity and authentication expert from CISA about this breach: what we know, what we don’t know, what we should learn from the incident, and (most importantly) what LastPass users should do about this.

Bob Lord is a Senior Technical Advisor for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and former Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Yahoo. 

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