Update: We’ve finalized our offering to our current users and sent out the remaining emails earlier today (5/28/2013). All existing users of Dashlane will get free, unlimited backup and sync for their data for lifetime. That means you can still backup your data to our cloud and also sync your Dashlane account between an unlimited number of devices. These are features that you’ve always enjoyed for free, and we’re keeping to our word that you’ll always have access to them – for free. In addition, we’re running a campaign that allows current users to contribute to Dashlane’s growth if you choose to. By contributing more than $60, you’ll get lifetime premium in addition to the free lifetime backup and sync that you already have. Thanks for supporting Dashlane and helping us grow! 

As you’ve probably noticed, we’ve begun rolling out Dashlane 2.0 – it’s the biggest update in Dashlane history! Given the magnitude of the changes, we’re rolling it out to our current users in a staged fashion to make sure it’s a smooth update for everyone.

We expect to finish updating all our users with Dashlane 2.0 by early next week. And while we’re sending out emails about the changes and how they’ll affect your account, we want to let you know about some changes in the interim, especially those regarding our new Premium offering.

When we released Dashlane 2.0, we also introduced our new premium offering: the entire product remains free for all users on any given device, but only Premium users will have access to automatic, secure cloud backup of their encrypted data and the ability to sync their data across (unlimited) devices, for $19.99 per year.

This new Premium offering is being rolled out into the product within the next few days as well. We think our new offering is clearer, simpler, and better suits user expectations. Also, it’s a model that allows us to continue to grow and improve the value that Dashlane brings to you.

For our current users – we are in the process of creating the right solution to bring you into the post-2.0 structure, where automatic backup and sync are Premium features. You will hear from us really soon (again, within the next few days,) about the same. If you have any questions regarding any communication you receive from us about this change, please contact us at support@dashlane.com.

We want our users to know that we appreciate the support you’ve given us from the beginning. We’ve made some big changes, and we’ve worked really hard – night and day kind of hard – to bring you an amazing new product and to do right by you. We’re all incredibly excited to finish launching it to you soon and hearing what you think about the new Dashlane!

LivingSocial was hacked today, and more than 50 million customer names, birthdates, emails, and encrypted passwords were stolen.

Dashlane issued a Security Alert to notify our users that they should update their passwords. Luckily, LivingSocial forced a mandatory password reset, so that account is locked until you do so.

But with every breach, there’s more at risk than that one account. That’s where the problem of password reuse comes in. According to a poll that we commissioned with Harris Interactive, 62% of US adults reuse the same password for their online accounts, and less than half change their passwords regularly. If you thought your password wasn’t interesting, hopefully you see now why it is. 

If you reuse your passwords, hackers didn’t just get your LivingSocial password. (Yes, they were encrypted, but it doesn’t take a very good hacker to crack encrypted passwords.) They got the password that you use for your Facebook, Gmail, and maybe even your bank account. (Let’s hope not.)

So what can you do? Unique passwords for all your accounts sound unattainable without a good way to keep track of them. There’s a solution for that.

Dashlane gives you a secure place to store your passwords, encrypted on your device using the leading encryption standard, AES-256. We never store your Master Password anywhere, so you are the only person who holds the key to your data.

We also show you where your vulnerabilities are online: weak passwords, reused passwords, and passwords that are compromised. It’s all easily viewable in our Security Dashboard.

Once you know where your weak spots are, you can update all those passwords instantly by using our strong password generator. Dashlane auto-saves the new password to your account, and autofills it for you on the web the next time you need it. 

Dashane users don’t fret when breaches like this happen. They know it’s easy to fix and by doing their part to protect themselves, they’ve minimized the damage that hackers do.

LivingSocial hacked. Thank God I have @dashlane. It generated the old password. Just generated a new password.

— Joe Casabona (@jcasabona) April 26, 2013

Crazy not to use DL RT @dashlane: Security Alert: LivingSocial.com has been breached. Update your password & accounts where you reuse.

— Amish Jani (@amishjani) April 26, 2013

If you’re not using a password manager yet, hopefully this is the last breach that puts you in a scramble before you realize it’s not enough to rely on your methods and memories to keep up with passwords. Start using Dashlane today! 

Dashlane’s headed to NY Tech Day this Thursday, April 25th. Get your free tickets and come see us!

NY Tech Day is essentially a giant science fair for tech startups. It gets massive turnout with over 400 startups exhibiting for 10,000 tech enthusiasts. It’s a really fun day of strutting your tech-stuff and connecting face to face with users, media, VCs and other exhibitors.

Last year, we attended NY Tech Day just after our big 1.0 launch. (Happy Birthday to us!) Since then, Dashlane has gone through a lot of growth: we launched Dashlane Premium, our iOS and Android apps. And we’ve got even bigger plans in the works for 2.0!

If you haven’t already, register to attend NY Tech Day at Pier 92 and come see us! (It’s free to attend.) We’ll be there all day – going to for perfect attendance on this one – demoing our app and having a ball. And for those who can’t attend in-person, stay tuned on Twitter. We’ll keep you up-to-date on all the fun happenings. 

Our new release, desktop version 1.6.5, brings improvements to the Security Dashboard, making it even easier to filter & find your weak passwords. And improvements to the auto-capture of strongly generator passwords makes it easy to update those weak spots, so you can welcome the New Year with maximum online security!

We also added a brand new feature to help you with profile completion: Dashlane will now automatically detect & prompt to save data that’s missing from your profile, so you don’t have to type it all in before you start putting Dashlane to work!

We’ve also improved our UI & added compatibility for Windows 8, which will come in hand if there’s a new computer waiting for you under the tree. (Wink, wink).

Upgrade to 1.6.5 today & start the New Year on the good foot with Dashlane! As always, we’re here to help. Email us at support@dashlane.com with any questions.

No matter how much we try to keep our personal data locked away from the world, there’s always an instance where we need to share it with someone. But there’s never been a good way to do it.

Though it ought to make us cringe, many of us send our passwords or even our social security numbers via plain-text emails and text messages. As clever as we think we are by sending bits of info over multiple messages, it’s a half-hearted attempt at security, and in some cases just confuses the recipient.

The arrival of Dashlane Courier revolutionizes that, making it more secure and convenient to share info, since we know the two have to go hand in hand!

There are many uses for Dashlane Courier. I polled our Board of Users and other others to see how Courier is helping them:

• Social security numbers & credit cards: “Definitely information like SSNs; also credit card numbers. Both of those are pieces of information I have to send my wife at various points.”
• Wire transfer information: “Courier gives me peace of mind when it comes to wire transfers. All someone needs is the wire number, amount, and sender’s name to intercept it, which wouldn’t be too difficult.”
• Syncing shared accounts: “Examples that come to mind are our power/internet logins (used to pay the bills), so both my wife and I have the info to log in if for some reason the other isn’t available to handle the payment.”
• Sharing online shopping accounts: “My wife and I share an Amazon account so whenever I  update that password, I can securely let her know.”
• Sharing utility information: “My roommates and I share utilities and a Netflix account. We don’t use those passwords more than once a month, so everyone is always forgetting them. Dashlane Courier makes it easy to send & resend them.”
• Wifi passwords: “The wifi password. Five minutes after we reset it, our kids and their friends come asking for it. It’s much easier to share it with them now. (After they finish their homework, of course!)”
• Making mom happy: “I’m a student, and from time to time, I need my parents to help me out financially. I added my mom to my bank account to make it easy for her to access, but she’s always forgetting the login. It’s easier to share it now.”

What are some of the ways that you’ve used Dashlane Courier?  Share your uses in the comments!