Since December, we are reading about the actions of Lapsus$. Samsung, Nvidia, and Ubisoft were some of their victims. Analysts suspecting that some of the members of the group are from South America, and some of them from Europe.
Lastly, the group shared a screenshot on their Telegram channel that showing they reached to the console of Okta.
Okta announced that they started an investigation after the hacker group shared the screenshot.
“We will provide updates as more information becomes available” said officials of Okta.
Okta is a major Single Sign-On provider and a hack can effect thousands of other companies. If verified, an attack on Okta would represent a major attack on digital supply chains. It can cause more damage than Solarwinds incident since most major applications of the customers of Okta are already placed in their Okta interface and has a single sign-on authentication.