Those that use LastPass may well have had a problem today - not being able to log into your account, except in offline mode (assuming offline mode was enabled) The problem related to a DataCenter which went down; LastPass don't seem to use distributed data centers and puts all its eggs in one basket. LastPass claimed that the problems only affected a small number of users, even though lastpass.com has been unavailable for several hours. Some people are complaining that when they eventually log in, they find their accounts empty or all the passwords missing. I have eventually managed to log in and all seems OK but it is a big worry that this may have caused my a data breach, though LastPass say this is not the case. LastPass is offered free to consumers but there is an enterprise version which has also been affected by this problem. It cannot be acceptable that LastPass does not use geographically distributed centers for such a crucial system. Many will be re-thinking whether to use password managers at all.
If LastPass is hacked, that is worse than using the same password on every website, since you know exactly what websites someone uses, what their usernames are, as well as their passwords!
The idea of trusting any company to all of my online passwords fills me with horror. I don't care how good the encryption is, or whether (or not, as with Lastpass) they have servers all over the world, no-one gets my passwords.
I wouldn't disagree but I do have sensitive data (passwords and bank details) that I have encrypted locally and then uploaded to a trustworthy encrypted data storage company (spideroak.com). Which in theory is no less safe than storing on a USB device according to the latest Black Hat conference - http://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/)
Apparently the problem was due to some issue with the BGP routing table size limit, seemingly due to a hard coded size limit of 512,000. It also affected other sites such as e-bay. link ==> How an arbitrary number broke the internet yesterday. Just thought you might like to know
I'm not so sure on the word arbitrary in the title. Assuming it was 512k, that's not arbitrary in computing terms. I will however sleep better tonight know knowing the issue
