If You Work For GA Tech, Monitor or Freeze your Credit Now
There’s some news that isn’t in the main news yet, several employees of GA Tech are reporting credit monitoring alerts that their social security number was leaked in conjunction with their emails. Many people are getting alerts about their information being found on the dark web.
It’s not clear at this point, since there’s literally no news I can find about it, what the source of the problem is. It’s not obviously GA Tech, it could be a bank hack where many employees have their email associated with the bank for some reason.
So there’s not much to say at this point, except if you work for GA Tech, put a freeze on your credit records until the severity and source of the leak can be identified.
There’s this Reddit thread to follow:
Otherwise this has not hit the news yet.
Okta Woes End With Identifying Hackers
There’s two articles to look at here, one on a great site, Bleeping Computer:
Okta breach: 134 customers exposed in October support system hack
and one on my favorite site, Security Week:
Okta Hack Blamed on Employee Using Personal Google Account on Company Laptop
What happened? Okta’s support system got hacked, the hackers were in there for a couple weeks, and 134 customers’ data was compromised. Why would a support site hack matter? Because customers submit diagnostic data that sometimes includes session tokens. A hacker can use that found token to hack Okta’s customers, five in this case.
In the second article above, the hack is being blamed on an employee who used their personal Google account to sign into Chrome.
OK it’s a busy week, that’s all for now, see you next week!
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