More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

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    1 year ago

    I’d be worried about losing access to the entirety of your passwords if Google up and decides that one day your account is suspended. There’s been a few reports historically where someone gets their Gmail account suspended for some mistaken reason and all their associated access gets pulled (e.g. from drive, sheets, etc)

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      1 year ago

      That’s what happened to me once due to Bitwarden - it lost all my 2FA codes. It was an absolute pain getting access back to all accounts.

      My Google account has been rock solid from the day I created it as a child to today, even though my needs and their services changed dramatically over the years.

      Most of the issues with people claiming their accounts got locked up “for some unknown error” are actually hosting and sharing copyrighted material, like creating public Google Drive links to a movie or sharing a game ROM via Gmail.

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        1 year ago

        I got a Google account that was shut down after some spammer started using that email as the sender address (sometimes called a Joe job). I somehow got in contact with an employee (friend of a friend) that checked on the account and verified it wasn’t my fault and reopened it, but a week later it got closed automatically again, with no easy way to reopen it.

        The backscatter was hundreds of emails per day, so the email part of the account was useless anyway, but I used it for other things.

        So it can happen at no fault on your own, and impossible to do anything about.

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        1 year ago

        Bitwarden offers an encrypted backup…

        Google has maybe a plain text export.

        Bitwarden has run flawless for me for multiple years.

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        1 year ago

        My Google account has been rock solid from the day I created it as a child

        Hopefully you were of legal age to accept the Terms of Service, otherwise it might’ve been an irregular account all this time.

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            1 year ago

            If it was, and you haven’t accepted the ToS as of legal age, then you might want to make a new one.

            Google is getting ready to purge inactive accounts starting next year, and it wouldn’t be the first time when a service purged irregular accounts many years after the fact, so… better safe than sorry.