More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user

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LastPass security breach linked to $35 million stolen in crypto heists
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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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USB sticks are not very reliable and can become totally unreadable randomly. I hope you at least have a few backups of it

Yeah, they are horribly unreliable.

I got myself 5 sticks, put the same data on all 5.

1st was dead within a month. 2nd & 3rd both dead in 4m, 4th dead in 6m. The 5th is still alive 3 years later.

It's a shit lottery, don't play it, modern flash drives are absolutely garbage. Yet I still have a whole pile of 1,2, 4 GB flash drives from over a decade ago and they all still work.

Old flash drives used to be all SLC.

Newer ones, use the cheapest tech for the same capacity, with QLC being about 16 times less reliable than SLC.

USB sticks can be very different. I would recommend using small M.2 SSD in a stick enclosure.