Hacked home computer of engineer led to second LastPass data breach

Hacked home computer of engineer led to second LastPass data breach

Password management company LastPass, which was hit by two data breaches last year, has revealed that data exfiltrated during the first intrusion, discovered in August, was used to target the personal home computer of one of its devops engineers and launch a second successful cyberatttack, detected in November.

The threat actor involved in the breaches infected the engineer's home computer with a keylogger, which recorded information that enabled a cyberattack that exfiltrated sensitive information from the company's AWS cloud storage servers, LastPass said in a cybersecurity incident update Monday.

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