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1Password is confirming it was attacked by cyber criminals after Okta was breached for the second time in as many years, but says customers' login details are safe. The main suspicion continued to be malware until last week when Okta publicized the issues it was facing with a number of its customers, including 1Password.
Following in the footsteps of BeyondTrust and CloudFlare, 1Password has revealed that it has been affected by the Okta Support System breach. David Bradbury, Chief Security Officer at Okta, disclosed last Friday that an attacker has "Leveraged access to a stolen credential to access Okta's support case management system" and "View files uploaded by certain Okta customers as part of recent support cases."
Popular password management solution 1Password said it detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance on September 29 following the support system breach, but reiterated that no user data was...
1Password, a popular password management platform used by over 100,000 businesses, suffered a security breach after hackers gained access to its Okta ID management tenant. "We detected suspicious activity on our Okta instance related to their Support System incident. After a thorough investigation, we concluded that no 1Password user data was accessed," reads a very brief security incident notification from 1Password CTO Pedro Canahuati.
The evolution of identity management away from methods requiring memory, lists and, yes, password managers, got help last month from Apple and Google, which have paved the way with multi-device passkey sign-in capabilities. "Our mission is to help people safeguard their digital identities and by doubling down on passkeys, we're providing users with both greater security and ease of use," said Steve Won, the chief product officer of 1Password, in a statement.
1Password says a recent incident that caused customers to receive notifications about changed passwords was the result of service disruption and not a security breach. The company first revealed in an incident report five days ago that the notifications were erroneous and linked to routine database maintenance scheduled on Thursday, April 27th. Today, 1Password chief technology officer Pedro Canahuati provided more details and said the customers' information was unaffected.
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