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Password manager Mitro will shutter itself on 31 August

You've got six weeks to migrate all your creds. Chop, chop

Password manager service ‪Mitro‬ is to shut down permanently from the end of August.

The announcement comes just less than twelve months after Mitro was acquired by Twitter for an undisclosed amount.

Mitro open sourced its server and client software through GitHub at the same time in late July 2014.

Mitro's team joined Twitter’s location team in New York and plans were put together to move Mitro (the cloud-based password manager) over towards a "sustainable, community-run project".

Things evidently haven't worked out since then and Mitro's core personnel have come to believe that keeping the password manager service up and running is more effort than it's worth, judging by the shutdown statement by Team Mitro.

We have been maintaining Mitro in our spare time, using our own money. At this point, the cost and administrative burden has become too much.

We do not have time to properly manage a service that people rely on for their security.

As a result, we need to stop running it. Thank you for your support, and sorry for the inconvenience.

Bringing down the shutters on Mitro will proceed gradually across several timed phases.

Nobody will able to create new accounts from the end of this week before the eventual shutdown date of 31 August. Data held by the service will be "permanently destroyed" two weeks later.

There is an outside chance that extended support might be offered until December if enough organisations are prepared to offer $200 per month, but this seems unlikely, even to Team Mitro.

Reg reader Pete, who brought Mitro's closure to our attention, described it as a "bloody awesome" project management security tool that his firm had used successfully for three years.

"Why is it junk seems to thrive then out comes a gem and Twitter kills it off - no wonder they need a new CEO," he said. "Mitro could have been a great base for industrial customized Twitter and maybe that's why it's being buried to reincarnate itself later."

Users are advised to export their data and move over to alternative password managers such as 1Password, Dashlane or LastPass well before the lights are turned off on Mitro, which is designed to offer a secure, easy-to-use password manager for individuals and groups. ®

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