Feds Suspect LastPass Hackers Stole $150 Million In Crypto From One Person
LastPass was breached twice in 2022. Now hackers are cashing out the crypto they stole with the pilfered passwords, feds say. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
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Three years after password manager LastPass was breached, twice, we’re finally beginning to see the repercussions, and they are sizable. According to just-unsealed court records, one victim of the hack lost cryptocurrency that today would be worth three-quarters of a billion dollars.
Federal investigators with the U.S. Secret Service believe the victim lost 283,326,127 in XRP cryptocurrency to those same LastPass hackers. A seizure warrant reviewed by Forbes notes that the XRP was worth $150 million when the theft occurred in January 2024. Now, thanks to a…