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And "unencrypted data, such as website URLs" which really should be enumerated in full.

It looks like the only relevant data that was unencrypted are the URLs [0]. I'm guessing that was some sort of design decision they made for the browser extension to be able to see if you had a password for that site.

If anything, apart from leaking the domain, which could still be a privacy issue, they should have at least sanitized the URLs to remove usernames or tokens if they were going to automatically save those URLs to the vault. I can guess that not doing so allowed their auto-login function to work on some websites by saving the login URL endpoint, but all I'd really want is the vault to keep the sanitized domain.

[0]: https://github.com/cfbao/lastpass-vault-parser/wiki/LastPass...

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