Okta Hacker Stole Data From ‘All’ Customer Support Users, Admits Company

The hacker may use the stolen information to target ‘Okta customers via phishing or social engineering attacks,’ the firm said.
Okta Hacker Stole Data From ‘All’ Customer Support Users, Admits Company
People's miniatures are seen in front of an Okta logo in this illustration taken on March 22, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Naveen Athrappully
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Identity-management firm Okta admitted that all its customer support-system users were impacted by a hack in September after earlier claiming that “less than 1 percent” were affected by the breach.

The threat actor of the Sept. 28 hacking attack downloaded a report containing the following information of “all Okta customer support system users”: full name, username, email, address, phone, mobile, last login, account created date, company name, address, user type, date of last password change, role: name, role: description, and time zone, the company said in a Nov. 29 post. For 99.6 percent of users, the only contact information recorded in the report was full name and address.

Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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