Hey,
so I want to provide a bit of help for those of you emailing me asking how to
move away from LastPass after this most recent of unfortunately many hacks over
the past decade. So in this video,
I'm going to show you how to properly migrate all of your passwords and data
from LastPass over to the manager. I recommend 1Password,
but the truth is that the process is mostly the same no matter which one you
choose.
But we're also going to cover how to safely remove your data from LastPass so
that you don't lose access to any of your accounts, which is super important.
And finally,
you'll see how to delete your LastPass account so you don't have to be concerned
about future hacks. Now, as you can see here,
I set up my own LastPass so that I could show you exactly how to export.
These are all fake passwords, passports, credit cards.
The first step that you need to take is to export all of your data from LastPass
out into what's known as a CSV file.
And the way you're going to do that here on the left is find advanced options on
the left side menu and then find export. Now,
the way that LastPass does this, I find a little weird.
They're going to email me and I need to go into that email address to confirm
that I actually wanted to export. So here you see the email,
I'm going to click Continue Export,
and it will say that I need to just go to the vault and continue the export
process. So I will do this again, go into the advanced options,
export,
and now the file will download. I just need to put in my password.
Normally I wouldn't put in a master password into a password manager.
I just didn't want to have to deal with that.
As I'm setting up this LastPass account, as you can see here,
everything is basically wide open. So as you do this,
keep in mind that this file keeps all of your passwords in the open,
unencrypted,
so you're going to want to get this into your password manager as quickly as
possible and then delete that file as quick as you can. Now,
in this case with 1Password that I'm going to show you here,
you're just going to go into file and click on import.
Any of these password managers are going to have that same option available for
you to import from any other place. So I'm going to put that file,
that CSV file in here and click import,
and you're going to see the import failed. That's probably going to happen to
you as well.
A lot of these password managers use different formats for their CSV files.
So if that's the case for you, you can do that same thing,
click on import and then click on web importer instead.
The web importer gives me the option to choose exactly which password manager I
am importing from. In this case,
I would choose LastPass and upload a CSV export file,
and that's where I'm going to go in here and again, put in that CSV file.
I'm going to say that I'm going to put it in my test fault and I'm going to
import.
That makes it so much easier to import all of these passwords from LastPass
into 1Password or to whichever password manager you want to use. Now,
let's go back into our LastPass dashboard. Now that we've moved over to another
password manager,
we don't just want to leave all of our data with LastPass or just immediately
delete our account. Wait before doing that,
and I want you to follow through step by step,
we're going to go through some very critical things that you need to do in
LastPass before you can just let it go and forget about it.
The very first of those is that you need to cancel any subscription.
You might have to do that. We're going to go into account settings,
and once this new window opens up, you're going to look down for my account.
That's going to open up a new window,
and you're going to look for this premium status if you have your credit card
and payment system in there, there will be a link that says,
cancel your account or cancel any future payments. Make sure that you click
that. In this case, I haven't actually paid LastPass, so that's not an option.
But if it were, this is where it would be in the premium status. Of course,
if you subscribed on your mobile device on iOS or Android on iOS,
you'll need to make sure to go into your settings app,
click on your name at the very top,
and then you're going to tap on subscriptions. You can go in there,
find all the subscriptions that you, all the apps that you've subscribed to,
and you can unsubscribe there. For Android,
you don't have to do anything because it won't auto-renew.
You can just let that be Step two, after we've canceled our account,
we need to go in and make sure that we've destroyed all sessions and trusted
devices. To do that, we're going to go into account settings again,
and we're going to scroll down until we find advanced settings. So show
advanced settings. Once you do that, again, scrolling all the way down,
we're going to destroy the sessions and I want to kill all but the current
session cause I want to make sure that I am still logged in. Now,
obviously you don't see any other active sessions in here,
but if you had a mobile device, if you had other computers,
those would show up here. Likewise,
if we go back here and we click on Trusted Devices,
you can select any trusted devices and remove them mobile devices,
go in there, click all of those and remove them.
It's not just enough for you to delete the app on your phone.
You need to go in and remove those devices as trusted devices. Okay,
moving on to step three.
It's very tempting to want to go through and just delete everything in your
account to make sure that LastPass doesn't have any other data that could be
compromised in the future,
but I would caution against that. What I would want to do,
especially if you have set up two FA inside of
LastPass you've stored those two FA sessions those two FA
authenticator codes within some of those, let's say Facebook had it,
I want you to use 1Password to log into your,
one of those accounts that uses two FA to make sure that those two FA keys have
migrated over. Because if they haven't,
you're going to want to reset up two A and do that through LastPass
and then create a new one in 1Password.
Because if you delete everything in your LastPass account and then you find out
that everything didn't migrate over to your new password manager and lose that
two A Access, you could be in deep trouble.
You'll have a really difficult time getting access back into your account.
So if you use two ffa,
test it in your new password manager to make sure that it migrated over
correctly. Now, step four is optional and it is a very manual process.
So if you don't want to do it, that's completely up to you.
But I'm going to show you that I'm going to go in and click every single one of
the passwords, passports, and credit cards that I have in my LastPass account,
and I'm going to take the action to delete. Now,
you're going to notice that I didn't, there's no way to select all.
So if you have hundreds of passwords,
that could take a lot of time and may not even be worth it for you.
But if you just have a few like this,
you can delete those items. So I'll click yes.
The only problem is those are also stored as
deleted items, so if you really want to delete these,
you're going to have to go in and do it again. Is this annoying?
Yes. Is this another one of those reasons why I do not like LastPass?
And I'm very glad that you're moving away from them. Absolutely.
So we are going to permanently delete all of these. Step five.
Now we can go in and remove the extension that you might have had on your
browser. We're going to go, yes,
remove this and you can delete the app on your phone or any other
mobile device that you have. The final step, this is it, you are almost done,
is to delete your LastPass account. The best way to do that,
there are ways within the account settings,
but one of the best ways to do that is to go to
lastpass.com/delete_account.p
H P. When you do this, it doesn't matter whether you're logged in or not,
you can do this even if you're not logged in. But if you are,
you can go here and you can delete your account. Now,
if you've forgotten your master password for LastPass and you're not logged in
when you visit this page, you'll see that it gives you an option to say,
I forgot my master password. And in that case,
they'll send you an email from the email account that you used to sign up
and you can delete your account via that email address even if you don't know
your master password. But in this case I do.
I'm going to go ahead and click on delete.
Do you remember your LastPass master password? Yes, I do. And it's going to say,
it's going to make sure,
do you know all this stuff? You're about to delete your LastPass account? Yes,
I am, and I am happy about it. Here's why I'm deleting.
I have security concerns and I'm going to go ahead and delete. Are you sure?
Yes, I am. This is a serious decision. Yes.
This is good that they're giving you these prompts.
We want to make sure that you've gone through all of these steps that I've
talked about and now we are going to delete it.
And if you have anything else installed on your computer or your phone
that has LastPass, delete it. Now you are finished.
You have completely migrated away from LastPass and into 1Password.
I hope this has been helpful. If so, give it a like, and if you want,
I've also done a tutorial on how you can use 1Password.
You can watch that video next.