After The Hacking Warning, The Stock Of Certification Company Okta Slides

Taken on March 22, 2022, this illustration shows people’s miniatures in front of the Okta logo. REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration

Washington, March 23 -Okta Inc shares on Wednesday after a US digital certification firm said hundreds of customers could have been affected by a security breach, including the hacking group Lapsus $. Was down 9%.

This breach raised concerns because the cyber blackmail gang posted what appeared to be an internal screenshot from within the organization’s network about a day ago.read more

In a series of blog posts, Okta Chief Security Officer David Bradbury states that the “greatest potential impact” lies in the 366 customers whose data was accessed by external contractors.

Contractor Sitel Group hired an engineer with a laptop hijacked by the hacker, adding that the number 366 represents the “worst scenario” and that the hacker was constrained by the range of possible actions.

A representative of Sitel Group’s subsidiary Sykes was unable to comment on the company’s relationship with its customers in an email statement, but conducted an “immediate and comprehensive” investigation into the breach. , Then a longer security risk.

San Francisco-based Okta helps employees in more than 15,000 organizations have secure access to networks and applications, so breaches can have serious consequences.read more

Bradbury said the intruder was unable to perform actions such as downloading the customer database or accessing Okta’s source code.

Okta first took the wind in January, but the Miami-based Sitel Group just received a forensic report on the incident on March 10 and gave Okta a summary of the findings a week later. rice field.

“I was very disappointed in the long period from the notification to Saitoru to the issuance of the complete investigation report,” Bradbury said.

Report by Raphael Satter; edited by Shri Navaratnam, Bernadette Baum, Alexander Smith

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