LastPass: “Xmarks was not hurt”

Original author: Gregg Keizer
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On Thursday, LastPass reported that hackers were unable to obtain passwords related to the XMarks service, which the company acquired in December last year.

Earlier, LastPass had to ask users to change their master password after detecting abnormal traffic that the company associated with the result of a database hack.

But Xmarks passwords were not affected by this attack, so users of the service do not need to change the password.


“Apparently, XMarks users weren’t hurt,” LastPass CEO Joe Siegrist answered the question asked by email. - “The work of these services is provided by different machines, different networks and different databases.”

LastPass acquired Xmarks late last year.

The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Xmarks, synchronizing bookmarks for use on multiple browsers, computers and operating systems, was one step away from closing. In September 2010, Xmarks announced that it could no longer compete with the Sync Services built-in to Chrome and Firefox.

After purchasing Xmarks, LastPass retained free access to the service, and also added the ability to buy a premium account for $ 12 per year, its advantages are synchronization with iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry.

On Thursday, Siergist gave an interview to PCWorld. He said that the possibility that someone could use LastPass user passwords is one in a million.

And this is in the worst case.

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