Hundreds of companies potentially hit by Okta hack

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Many household-name companies are clients of the access-management business.

Hundreds of organisations that rely on Okta to provide access to their networks may have been affected by a cyber-attack on the company.

"The cyber-gang is known for extortion, threatening the release of sensitive information, if demands by its victims are not made" he said. revealed the hackers had accessed the computer of a customer-support engineer working for the sub-processor, over a five-day period in mid-January. The contractor employing the engineer, Sykes, part of the Sitel Group, said it was "confident there is no longer a security risk".

 

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