Pour one out for all of the security practitioners who are going to have to spend the holidays patiently explaining that using a password manager is still good, actually, to people who have glanced at a headline about the latest LastPass breach.
Disclosure. I work for 1Password, a competitor of LastPass.
The problem (in this case) is the consequence of being breached. We have built 1Password so the the consequences for users of a similar breach would be minimal. There are real differences in the security architecture of different password managers that can make
I wrote about a relevant difference a year ago.