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A password manager LastPass calls “fraudulent” booted from App Store — "LassPass" mimicked the name and logo of real LastPass password manager


"LassPass" mimicked the name and logo of real LastPass password manager.

At the time this article on Ars went live, Apple had removed the app—titled LassPass and bearing a logo strikingly similar to the one used by LastPass—from its App Store. “We are raising this to our customers’ attention to avoid potential confusion and/or loss of personal data,” LastPass Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst Mike Kosak wrote. The app did, however, provide fields for users to enter a wealth of sensitive personal information, including passwords, email and physical addresses, and bank, credit, and debit card data.

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