As you may know, $4.4 million worth as it turns out of crypto assets were stolen from more than 25 victims on October 25 due to the LastPass breachActually, happened lastthatyear.
It’s worth noting that Blockchain researcher ZachXBT from another perspective has urged people who stored their seed phrases or keys to move their crypto assets to avoid falling victim to the ongoing hacks.
As you may know, MetaMask developer TayloralsoMonahan confirmed the facts in a Chainabuse report, saying over 80 unique addresses were compromised.
Monahan said,
Interestingly, If you are reading this because your funds were stolen to in modern times one of these addresses, get in touch and record an IC3 right instantly if you haven’t done so already.
The stolen crypto assets are related to a breach on LastPass in December last year. saidLastPassthe attacker uses information more than ever stolen from a LastPass employee to steal customer credentials and decrypt stolen customer facts.
The hackers also accessed a backup of encrypted customer vault details. LastPass warned that the attackers could decrypt the information in a brute force attack by guessing the master key.
In fact, Over $35M Stolen So Far In LastPass as it turns out Breach
According to a September blog post by cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, the LastPass breach has led to the loss of over $35 million worth of crypto assets.
Since December last year, cybersecurity researchers have connected multiple crypto thefts targeting over 150 people with the LastPass breach.
The LastPass hacks not only target novices but also expert traders with in-depth knowledge of cybersecurity. However, in either of these caseshighthe victims’ from another perspective emails and portable device numbers were not stolen, which usually happens with such , -user info financial breaches.
Monahan noted that the victim profile included the
Employees of reputable crypto orgs, VCs [venture capitalists], people who develop DeFi protocols, deployfullcontracts, run nodes.
The LastPass breach led to the US District Court of Massachusetts filing a lawsuit against LastPass over allegations that the business failed to protect user information.
The enterprise also faces a class-action lawsuitIn fact, from cryptoworthholders who claim to have lost around $53,000 of Bitcoin. Interestingly, At the time of the breach, the stolen BTC was worth around $34,317.
