Submitted by BasedSweet t3_10z1kx5 in technology
jmpalermo t1_j85g5cn wrote
Reply to comment by mrDragon616 in Millions of passwords stolen from LastPass earlier than company disclosed: Report by BasedSweet
Hashed passwords are only useful for verifying somebody has the password. So if you are a website, you store only a users password hash, then when they try to sign in, you hash the password they’re logging in with to verify it matches.
You can’t reverse a hash back into the original password though.
So for you to be able to retrieve your passwords from LastPass, the password must be stored, not just the hash.
mrDragon616 t1_j85i8aq wrote
Oh ok that makes sense. Thank you!
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