Question About First Use of Bitwarden

[ldamario]

How can I find out when I first starting using Bitwarden? Thanks.

[Nail1684]

@ldamario

How can I find out when I first starting using Bitwarden?

… find out what?

Please clarify what exactly you mean…

Otherwise, a few general things:

• here is “Getting started” guide that can be recommended: Reddit - The heart of the internet

• as you chose the tag app:browser you probably want to set up autofill properly, and then these Help Sites can give some guidance:

  • https://bitwarden.com/help/auto-fill-browser/
  • Forming URIs for Autofill | Bitwarden

[ldamario]

I’ve been using Bitwarden for several years. I’m trying to find out when I first started using it.

There is a class action suit for the LastPass data security breach that occurred in 2022. I was using LastPass before I switched to Bitwarden. If I can find out when I first started using Bitwarden, that will tell me if I was using LastPass in 2022.

I tried checking my emails, but that’s inexact meehod.

I tried checking my emails, but that’s inexact meehod.

Sent from my iPhone

[Nail1684]

@ldamario Ahh…

Did you use Bitwarden premium (or family etc.) right from the start? Then you should be able to find your “subscriptions”/invoices in the web vault.

If you are relatively certain about which vault items you might have already created/used when you started Bitwarden: when you open any vault item (“View item”), there is an item history at the bottom. That contains the creation date of that item. (unfortunately, we don’t have sorting options yet, which would make it easy to just sort for the oldest vault item)

(one caveat: that second idea might not work if you purged your vault and reimported all items from an export in the meantime)

[ldamario]

Hi,

I have always used the free version of Bitwarden. Nevertheless, I was able to use your suggestion about looking up the history for a vault item that I would have created when I first started using Bitwarden. That gave me the start date for using Bitwarden and the end date for using LastPass.

Unfortunately, when I pursued submitting a claim for the LastPass data breach, I found out that there had to have been actual monetary losses or costs as a result of the data breach in order to submit a claim. But thanks for your help anyway.

Lou