Comment by HoraryHellfire2 on 07/05/2019 at 05:21 UTC

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Online password managers like 1password and Bitwarden encrypt all data in the "vault" very heavily. It's encrypted before any information is sent online and stored on servers. If someone were to hack them, they'd have a bunch of useless encrypted files. They'd need your "Master Password" that unlocks your vault locally in order to have access to your data.

You shouldn't be losing the password to the password manager at all. It should be a secure and unique password you use nowhere else that you can remember. Because of the purpose of password managers, you only ever need to remember one password.

 

If by "hacked" you mean that someone knows your Master Password and can access your account, they would know every one of your passwords. However, if you take proper security precautions like never giving the master password out to *anyone* and utilizing 2FA (especially more effective ones like Yubikey) then you don't have to worry about being hacked.

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