Password manager Last Pass has asked its users to change their master passwords after discovering a potential breach to its database.

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Another piece of good advice, get a password manager.

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In the near term, this can mean helping consumers better understand password manager software, which gives users the power to set arbitrarily complex passwords that are website-specific, without forcing users to memorize them all.

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For many, giving away a Facebook password to the hiring manager at any company could be the same thing.

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