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LastPass hacked: How to export and protect your passwords

Last Pass is no stranger to data breaches. It’s suffered several high-profile leaks, with the most recent (and alarming) incident happening just last year. When news first broke in August, the developer assured everyone that customers were unaffected. But in a complete reversal, the company’s December updates were grim—customer data had been taken after all.

If you’re feeling like you want to leave the service, you can hardly be blamed. In this latest breach, not only was personally identifying information like billing addresses, telephone numbers, and IP addresses stolen, but vault data as well. Most damning: Some of that vault data was unencrypted.

The good news is that exporting your data is quick and relatively straightforward. You get.

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