By Raphael Satter
WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters) – Hundreds of customers of digital authentication company Okta were possibly affected by a security breach caused by the hacking group known as Lapsus$, the company said on Tuesday.
The breach has sparked concern since the cyber extortion gang posted what appeared to be internal screenshots from within the organization’s network about a day ago.
In a series of posts, the company’s director of security, David Bradbury, said the “maximum potential impact” was 366 customers, whose data was accessed through an external service provider, Sitel.
Sitel had hired an engineer whose laptop had been hijacked, he added.
The number of 366 represented the “worst case scenario”, Bradbury warned, noting that, in any case, the hackers were limited in their range of actions.
Okta helps employees in more than 15,000 organizations securely access networks and applications, so a breach in the company can lead to serious consequences.
Bradbury said the attack would not give attackers “divine access” as they would not be able to perform actions such as downloading customer databases or accessing Okta’s source code.
Okta learned of the breach in January, he said, while Sitel Group received a forensic report on the incident on March 10, giving Okta a summary of the findings a week later.
Bradbury said he was “very disappointed with the length of time that elapsed between our notification to Sitel and the issuance of the full investigation report.”
Sitel did not immediately return a message asking for comment on Wednesday.
(By Raphael Satter)
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