CYBERSECURITY -

Okta Notifies Customers of LAPSUS$ Attack -

Okta, which markets itself as a “leading provider of identity” in the health care, public sector, energy, financial services, technology, travel and hospitality, and nonprofit industries, has notified some of its customers that data may have been accessed by cybercriminal group LAPSUS$. (Late breaking news—LAPSUS$ may be a teenager living in the U.K.). According to Okta, in late January it “detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third party customer support engineer working for one of our subprocessors.” According to the forensic investigation, an attacker had access to the support engineer’s laptop for five days in January.