1Password Claims Recent Password Change Notifications Were Caused By Service Disruption Rather Than Security Breach

1Password's CTO, Pedro Canahuati, has provided details on the recent password change notifications incident, claiming that 1Password experienced a brief service outage and that no user data was in danger. The alerts were triggered by the company's US servers responding to a spike of sync requests. Since clients misinterpreted the error codes sent by the servers, the incorrect error message was shown. Read more...