Used to trust password managers completely until LastPass got hacked in 2022

Had all my passwords in LastPass for 5 years. After that breach I went through and changed every single one, then switched to Bitwarden. Took me two whole weekends to clean up the mess. Now I keep critical stuff like banking in my head or written on paper locked in my home safe. Has anyone else gone backwards like this after being burned?

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milabaker18d ago

Did you keep your master password complex enough before the breach?

the_robin18d ago

Yeah totally. I thought mine was pretty solid but looking back it was way too short and I reused parts of it in other passwords. The breach really woke me up to how lazy I got with that one master key. Now I use a random 20 character string with symbols and numbers mixed in, no words or patterns at all. It took me like a week to memorize the new one but it feels a lot safer knowing it's not something a hacker could guess or crack with a simple dictionary attack.