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[German]On October 21, yes, the hack of the Okta support platform had become known (see Okta support system hacked with stolen credentials). Two days later, on Oct. 23, 2023, 1Password issued a terse announcement that it had already detected suspicious activity on its own Okta instance used to manage employee-facing applications on Sept. 29, 2023. According to the vendor, this activity was immediately terminated and an investigation was launched. After completing the investigation, 1Password concluded that no 1Password user data was accessed. No user data or other sensitive systems, employee or user, were compromised, it said. Bleeping Computer has posted some additionsl information.

[German] Provider 23andMe (creates analyses of the human genome) has suffered a cyber incident in which millions of customer data were stolen. At first, the provider denied everything. A few days ago, one million records of Ashkenazi Jews were published in an underground forum. Now more captured data of 4.1 million customers from Germany and the UK has been published.

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