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OKTA INVESTIGATING CLAIMS OF CUSTOMER DATA BREACH FROM LAPSUS$ GROUP
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AX SHARMA
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Okta, a leading provider of authentication services and Identity and access
management (IAM) solutions says it is investigating claims of data breach.
On Tuesday, data extortion group Lapsus$ posted screenshots in their Telegram
channel of what it alleges to be access to Okta's backend adminsitrative
consoles and customer data.
As a publicly-traded company worth over $6 billion, Okta employs over 5,000
people across the world and provides identity management and authentication
services to major organizations including Siemens, ITV, Pret a Manger, Starling
Bank, among others.
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LAPSUS$ CLAIMS TO HAVE OKTA CUSTOMER DATA
Data extortion group Lapsus$ claims to have acquired "superuser/admin" access to
Okta.com and that it accessed Okta's customer data, as seen by BleepingComputer:
Lapsus$ claims to have obtained Okta customer data (BleepingComputer)
"Okta is aware of the reports and is currently investigating," an Okta
spokesperson told BleepingComputer.
"We will provide updates as more information becomes available."
Screenshots shared by Lapsus$, as seen by BleepingComputer, show the system date
set to January 21st, 2022, indicating the hack may have occurred months ago.
One of the screenshots displaying Lapsus$' 'superuser' access to Okta's admin
console also includes an URL with an email belonging to an Okta customer support
representative who was likely compromised.
Okta co-founder and CEO Todd McKinnon has now confirmed this:
"We believe the screenshots shared online are connected to this January event,"
says McKinnon.
"Based on our investigation to date, there is no evidence of ongoing malicious
activity beyond the activity detected in January."
However, one of the posted screenshots indicates that Lapsus$ could change
customer passwords using Okta's admin panel.
Security researchers are worried that the hacking group could have used this
'superuser' access as a way to breach customer's servers who use the company's
authentication solutions.
Lapsus$ also reinforced this theory when they said they did not attack Okta to
steal the company's databases, but rather to target their customers.
"BEFORE PEOPLE START ASKING: WE DID NOT ACCESS/STEAL ANY DATABASES FROM OKTA -
our focus was ONLY on okta customers," Lapsus$ stated in a post on Telegram.
With many well-known companies using Okta's services, including Fedex, Peloton,
SONOS, T-Mobile, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and JetBlue, this is obviously of
significant concern.
LAPSUS$ IS ON A LEAKING BINGE
The development follows Lapsus$' claims that it breached Microsoft's internal
Azure DevOps server.
On Monday, Lapsus$ leaked what it claims to be 37 GB of stolen source code for
Bing, Cortana, and other Microsoft projects, and Microsoft confirmed it was
investigating.
Additionally, the group claimed today that it breached LG Electronics (LGE) for
the "second time" in a year. BleepingComputer has not confirmed this claim and
has reached out to LG:
Lapsus$ says it also breached LG Electronics (BleepingComputer)
Lapsus$ has previously leaked gigabytes of proprietary data purportedly stolen
from leading companies such as Samsung, NVIDIA, and Mercado Libre who confirmed
this month it had suffered a breach.
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confidential files like a ransomware operator would, these actors steal and hold
on to victims' proprietary data, and publish it should their extortion demands
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If Lapsus$'s claims of breaching Okta's systems turn out to be accurate, it
remains yet to be found out how many of Okta's customers were impacted and to
what extent.
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