Digital extortion group Lapsus$ claims it breached Okta's security. Okta says categorically, 'The Okta service has not been breached.' Conflicting information makes it hard for Okta customers to assess the extent of the damage.
to a “super user” administrative account for the identity management platform Okta. Since so many organizations use Okta as the gatekeeper to their suite of cloud services, such an attack could have major ramifications for any number of Okta customers.
Bradbury's statement says that the company only received analysis of the January incident this week from the private forensics firm it hired to assess the situation. The timing coincides with Lapsus$'s decision to release screenshots, via Telegram, that claim to detail its Okta administrative account access from late January.
Okta says that it is contacting customers who may have been impacted. On Tuesday, though, companies including the internet infrastructure firm Cloudflareof why they were hearing about the incident from tweets and criminal screenshots rather than from Okta itself. The identity management company seems to maintain, though, that compromising a third-party affiliate in some way is not a direct breach.
Sykes, which is owned by the business services outsourcing company Sitel Group, said in a statement, first“Following a security breach in January 2022 impacting parts of the Sykes network, we took swift action to contain the incident and to protect any potentially impacted clients,” the company said in a statement. “As a result of the investigation, along with our ongoing assessment of external threats, we are confident there is no longer a security risk.
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