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Account compromise of “unprecedented scale” uses everyday home devices

Getty Images reader comments 13 Authentication service Okta is warning about the “unprecedented scale” of an ongoing campaign that routes fraudulent login requests through the mobile devices and browsers of everyday users in an attempt to conceal the malicious behavior. The attack, Okta said, uses other means to camouflage the login attempts as well, including… Read More »

No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked

Omar Marques/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 102 with Identity and authentication management provider Okta on Friday published an autopsy report on a recent breach that gave hackers administrative access to the Okta accounts of some of its customers. While the postmortem emphasizes the transgressions of an employee logging into a personal Google account… Read More »

Okta hit by another breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor

Getty Images reader comments 25 with Identity and authentication management provider Okta has been hit by another breach, this one against a third-party vendor that allowed hackers to steal personal information for 5,000 Okta employees. The compromise was carried out in late September against Rightway Healthcare, a service Okta uses to support employees and their… Read More »

1Password detects “suspicious activity” in its internal Okta account

reader comments 49 with 1Password, a password manager used by millions of people and more than 100,000 businesses, said it detected suspicious activity on a company account provided by Okta, the identity and authentication service that disclosed a breach on Friday. “On September 29, we detected suspicious activity on our Okta instance that we use… Read More »

Okta says hackers breached its support system and viewed customer files

reader comments 8 with Identity and authentication management provider Okta said hackers managed to view private customer information after gaining access to credentials to its customer support management system. “The threat actor was able to view files uploaded by certain Okta customers as part of recent support cases,” Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury said… Read More »

4 Okta customers hit by campaign that gave attackers super admin control

Getty Images reader comments 25 with Authentication service Okta said four of its customers have been hit in a recent social-engineering campaign that allowed hackers to gain control of super administrator accounts and from there weaken or entirely remove two-factor authentication protecting accounts from unauthorized access. The Okta super administrator accounts are assigned to users… Read More »

Okta says source code for Workforce Identity Cloud service was copied

Getty Images reader comments 26 with 0 posters participating Share this story Single sign-on provider Okta said on Wednesday that software code for its Okta Workforce Identity Cloud service was copied after intruders gained access to the company’s private repository on GitHub. “Our investigation concluded that there was no unauthorized access to the Okta service,… Read More »