{"id":176936,"date":"2026-02-17T20:43:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/password-managers-promise-that-they-cant-see-your-vaults-isnt-always-true\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:43:01","slug":"password-managers-promise-that-they-cant-see-your-vaults-isnt-always-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/password-managers-promise-that-they-cant-see-your-vaults-isnt-always-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Over the past 15 years, password managers have grown from a niche security tool used by the technology savvy into an indispensable security tool for the masses, with an estimated<\/a> 94 million US adults\u2014or roughly 36 percent of them\u2014having adopted them. They store not only passwords for pension, financial, and email accounts, but also cryptocurrency credentials, payment card numbers, and other sensitive data.<\/p>\n

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term \u201czero knowledge\u201d to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The definitions vary slightly from vendor to vendor, but they generally boil down to one bold assurance: that there is no way for malicious insiders or hackers who manage to compromise the cloud infrastructure to steal vaults or data stored in them. These promises make sense, given previous<\/a> breaches<\/a> of LastPass and the reasonable expectation that state-level hackers have both the motive and capability to obtain password vaults belonging to high-value targets.<\/p>\n

A bold assurance debunked<\/h2>\n

Typical of these claims are those made by Bitwarden, Dashlane, and LastPass, which together are used by roughly 60 million people. Bitwarden, for example<\/a>, says that \u201cnot even the team at Bitwarden can read your data (even if we wanted to).\u201d Dashlane, meanwhile, says<\/a> that without a user\u2019s master password, \u201cmalicious actors can\u2019t steal the information, even if Dashlane\u2019s servers are compromised.\u201d LastPass says<\/a> that no one can access the \u201cdata stored in your LastPass vault, except you (not even LastPass).\u201d<\/p>\n

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Over the past 15 years, password managers have grown from a niche security tool used by the technology savvy into an indispensable security tool for the masses, with an estimated 94 million US adults\u2014or roughly 36 percent of them\u2014having adopted them. They store not only passwords for pension, financial, and email accounts, but also cryptocurrency credentials, payment card numbers, and other sensitive data. 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