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Complicating the issue further, an amendment to EU data protection regulation means companies – and probably governments – can in future be fined a percentage of their turnover if they suffer a data breach.
If LastPass, or any company that stored passwords in encrypted form, were to suffer a data breach, the risk would be that the thieves could apply a brute-force attack at their leisure, offline, methodically trying every possible combination of characters until a match was found.
While small businesses "should not panic" if they suffer a data breach, Ms Denham said there were some basic steps that companies should take to protect data.
Update: This story has been updated with additional context about the leak and clarified to note that Twitter did not suffer a data breach.
"Getting access to these subsets of information is increasingly easy, because it's all online," says Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer at Identity Theft 911, which assists companies after they suffer a data breach.
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