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by YZF 1431 days ago
Depends on how long the decrypted password(s) is sitting there for someone to read and how easy it is to locate... at least that'd be my speculation. You'd think a good password manager doesn't hold onto the password for very long, then there's copy/paste buffers (which some password managers also clear), then there's the question of whether there's enough information for the attacker to figure out what the password is for. If this is a JavaScript attack vector (not sure if this is possible at all given the language constraints) it's presumably a lot slower vs. the numbers discussed.

So maybe don't quite panic yet. Developing story.