A hacking group that previously claimed attacks on Nvidia and Microsoft has said it's compromised Okta — which provides 'single sign-on' identity services to thousands of firms
of late 2020, in which Russian-backed hackers gained access to a wide range of companies and government agencies.: The group known as Lapsus$ posted screenshots on Monday night that were dated from January showing it had access to the support account.
The kind of support account that was compromised, Bradbury wrote, is "unable to create or delete users, or download customer databases." Support engineers can "facilitate the resetting of passwords and multi-factor authentication factors for users, but are unable to obtain those passwords."also included mention of web infrastructure and security firm Cloudflare, which uses Okta internally.
credentials of any employees who’ve changed their passwords in the last 4 months, out of abundance of caution."In past incidents, Lapsus$ has tried to extort corporations by threatening to post stolen source code and other kinds of business information. The group has also posted some of the code that runs Microsoft's Bing search engine and Cortana personal assistant, in a dump of about 37GB of data.
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