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Password management service LastPass can now proactively unmask you if your logins have been compromised in data breaches -- nevertheless relinquished if you're a paid LastPass subscriber. The tool comes as partage of a new security dashboard investigated to harmony you a improved understanding of the valor of all of your passwords.

The new "dark web monitoring" tool keenly checks your logins confronting Enzoic's database (previously PasswordPing, who LastPass started partnering with in 2017). If the monitoring tool finds one of your logins in the database, LastPass will fire-eating you in the new security dashboard as well-built as by sending you an email. That fire-eating will veneer you which site was breached as well-built as will link out to that website therefore you can modernity your password.

The new security dashboard, on the other hand, will be awaited for freebie as well-built as paid LastPass users

The new security dashboard, on the other hand, will be awaited for freebie and paid LastPass users, as well-built as it can unmask you which of your passwords are weak, reused, or contrarily at-risk. The useable dashboard takes the quarters of the Security Challenge, a tool that conjointly recommended which passwords you should modernity (including those that had been compromised as reported by Enzoic's database), nevertheless seasonable you to run it manually every time you wanted to check. LastPass says the new dashboard is now awaited on desktop as well-built as will be awaited in the company's motile apps in the contentious weeks.

You can once get agnate monitoring trapping from other password managers, such as the paid service 1Password, or you can drawback yourself to see if a login has been compromised by checking the Have I Been Pwned database. As well-built as Apple plans to offer password monitoring in Safari for freebie as partage of iOS 14 as well-built as macOS Big Sur. Nevertheless LastPass's new glossiness could be salubrious to those who once rely on the service to intercommunication alimony track of their passwords.