More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

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    I just store recovery phrases of all kinds on an encrypted USB stick (which is obviously only connected to my PC when I need to put a new one in or use it (which so far has happened never)), I feel like that is secure enough for me, although if I could laminate at home I might print and make small cards in a separate a card wallet. Any other way I feel like I would eventually lose them, the particular USB drive ive had for over 15 years, it is 512 MB lol.

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      USB sticks are not very reliable and can become totally unreadable randomly. I hope you at least have a few backups of it

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        Yeah, they are horribly unreliable.

        I got myself 5 sticks, put the same data on all 5.

        1st was dead within a month. 2nd & 3rd both dead in 4m, 4th dead in 6m. The 5th is still alive 3 years later.

        It’s a shit lottery, don’t play it, modern flash drives are absolutely garbage. Yet I still have a whole pile of 1,2, 4 GB flash drives from over a decade ago and they all still work.

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          Old flash drives used to be all SLC.

          Newer ones, use the cheapest tech for the same capacity, with QLC being about 16 times less reliable than SLC.

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        1 year ago

        USB sticks can be very different. I would recommend using small M.2 SSD in a stick enclosure.

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      I would duplicate to at least 2 sticks, and also a written form that you keep stored with important documents, like a safe with your SSN, birth certificate, etc.

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      For any significant amount of money, the seed should never even touch a PC. No USBs, no printers.