Okta has announced that a breach has impacted 366 corporate customers, making it one of the most high-profile breaches so far in 2022.
The announcement comes after the Lapsus$ hacking group posted screenshots of internal Okta apps and systems, two months after the breach occurred.
After conflicting initial statements from the company about whether a breach occurred and the extent of the incident, the company has claimed that the breach came as a result of actions taken by a third-party vendor that acts as a subprocessor and customer support provider for Okta.
Okta’s leadership confirmed in a statement that the company, Sykes, was the source of the breach, after its parent company Sitel’s network was breached over a five-day period by the hackers.
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