Nonetheless, it’s not the kind of thing any firm wants to happen. If you had a different browser installed on your computer – such as Safari, Opera, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox – you could always install the extension for that.Īnd, of course, it’s worth underlining that no-one’s password was at any risk due to this incident. Existing users would not have been affected, as the extension had not been removed from their own computer – just the store.įurthermore, the LastPass extension dropping temporarily out of the Google Chrome web store wouldn’t have prevented users from accessing their passwords, which continued to be available as before from their password vault by signing in to the LastPass website or using the LastPass smartphone app.
It’s also important to note that the removal of the extension would only have affected people who were attempting to install the extension. Although an embarrassing goof, it’s something of a storm in a teacup security-wise.
