Popular password-management firm LastPass announced that it is looking into a second security issue in which hackers gained access to some of its customer data.
According to LastPass CEO Karim Toubba, “We recently discovered suspicious activity within a third-party cloud storage service, which is now used by both LastPass and its partner, GoTo.”
In October 2015, GoTo, formerly known as LogMeIn, purchased LastPass. The Boston-based company revealed plans to spin off LastPass as a separate business in December 2021.
Through the use of data gained from a prior breach in August 2022, an unauthorized third party was able to access “some components of our customers’ information” as a result of the digital intrusion.
Its development environment was the target of the August 2022 security incident, which resulted in the theft of some of its source code and technical data. LastPass revealed in September that the threat actor had access for four days.
Customers of LastPass and GoTo may be affected, however the extent of the compromise is still unknown. Passwords used by users weren’t hacked, though.
The company claimed to have hired Google-owned Mandiant’s services and informed law enforcement of the most recent development. It said that it was trying to figure out exactly what data was accessed.
It also stressed that it would keep implementing improved security safeguards and monitoring tools in order to help identify and stop new threat actor activities.