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Okta Breach Blamed On User's Personal Google Login

Gestalt IT, Wednesday, November 8,2023

Okta hasn't had a very good run of security headlines lately, and the latest is a breach that resulted in the theft of session tokens of several customers from Okta's customer support system

Though the number of customers was relatively low, the unauthorized access went undetected for over two weeks. The root cause seems to have come from an employee logging into their personal Google account and saving a username and password with the Chrome browser.

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