The matter was investigated and contained by the subprocessor,” Okta CEO Todd McKinnon said in a statement that also was released Tuesday evening. “In late January 2022, Okta detected an attempt to compromise the account of a third-party customer support engineer working for one of our subprocessors. Lapsus$ also claimed credit for compromising digital identity management firm Okta, which also confirmed the breach after the hacker gang released screenshots of its internal network. “As they expanded their attacks, the actors began targeting telecommunication, higher education, and government organizations in South America,” the company wrote. “Microsoft does not rely on the secrecy of code as a security measure and viewing source code does not lead to elevation of risk,” the company wrote.Īccording to Microsoft, Lapsus$ targets cryptocurrency accounts to steal wallets and funds.

Lapsus$, a South American hacking group that has been linked to data breaches at Samsung and Ubisoft, on Monday posted a file online containing partial source code from Microsoft’s Bing, Bing Maps and Cortana. Microsoft said in the post that Lapsus$, also known as DEV-0537, had breached one account, resulting in “limited access” but not to the data of any of the tech giant’s customers.

“This public disclosure escalated our action allowing our team to intervene and interrupt the actor mid-operation, limiting broader impact.” “Our team was already investigating the compromised account based on threat intelligence when the actor publicly disclosed their intrusion,” Microsoft disclosed in a blog post late Tuesday night. Microsoft has confirmed that the hacker group Lapsus$ breached its security system, after the digital extortion gang claimed credit earlier this week.

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