Okta hack

The Okta hack was one of the biggest hacks of 2022. A tweet was sent on Twitter where the LAPSUS$ hacker group was bragging that they had hacked Okta. The tweets included screenshots of a customer support engineer’s computer:

Figure 5.1 ‒ LAPSUS$ announcing they had hacked Okta

Within the screenshots was a picture of the hacker logged in as a Cloudflare employee.

I was a CISO at this point, and someone at my company forwarded the tweets to me. Twitter (or X, as it is now called) is a good place to stay up on all of the latest hacks since hackers will brag on X. Also, there is a great number of cybersecurity researchers who post information on the site. If your company has an incident, then you need to do a write-up of the incident, detailing how you found out about it and the steps you took to address it. When there is an active incident at your company, you need to create a Tiger team or IR interim working group to focus on...