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Another incident related to Octa - this time a large-scale one.
Almost 5,000 people, including current and former employees of Octa, as well as their families, faced a threat to their personal security due to a data leak from a third-party provider that provides Octa with health services.
The information impact was powerful: according to Octa regulators, the company Rightway Healthcare, which helps in finding medical institutions and the cost of services for Octa employees, was the victim of a hacker attack on September 23. Some time later, on October 12, Rightway admitted that unauthorized access to files was obtained, which led to the compromise of important data.
Octa has taken urgent action by activating an investigation and assessing the scale of the problem. According to them, the leak affected personal data, including names, social security numbers, as well as health insurance plan numbers. A total of 4,961 people's data was affected by unauthorized access.
As a support measure, Octa offered all those affected a two-year free service to monitor the card's financial transactions, services to recover stolen identity, and financial fraud detection systems.
Octa representatives told the Recorded Future News news agency that the incident with Rightway does not affect the direct use of Octa services and that the security of systems was not affected. It was also noted that the data of Octa customers remains out of danger.
Note that this is not the first major cyber incident in Octa systems. In September, hackers gained superadministrator privileges in Octa's systems through a social engineering attack on support specialists. In addition, in December 2022, cybercriminals hacked into the Octa repositories on GitHub and stole the source code.
In addition, in October, the popular 1Password detected suspicious activity in its Octa instance related to an incident in the customer support system. 1Password uses the services of Octa, the largest provider of security tools, to manage applications designed for employees.
Almost 5,000 people, including current and former employees of Octa, as well as their families, faced a threat to their personal security due to a data leak from a third-party provider that provides Octa with health services.
The information impact was powerful: according to Octa regulators, the company Rightway Healthcare, which helps in finding medical institutions and the cost of services for Octa employees, was the victim of a hacker attack on September 23. Some time later, on October 12, Rightway admitted that unauthorized access to files was obtained, which led to the compromise of important data.
Octa has taken urgent action by activating an investigation and assessing the scale of the problem. According to them, the leak affected personal data, including names, social security numbers, as well as health insurance plan numbers. A total of 4,961 people's data was affected by unauthorized access.
As a support measure, Octa offered all those affected a two-year free service to monitor the card's financial transactions, services to recover stolen identity, and financial fraud detection systems.
Octa representatives told the Recorded Future News news agency that the incident with Rightway does not affect the direct use of Octa services and that the security of systems was not affected. It was also noted that the data of Octa customers remains out of danger.
Note that this is not the first major cyber incident in Octa systems. In September, hackers gained superadministrator privileges in Octa's systems through a social engineering attack on support specialists. In addition, in December 2022, cybercriminals hacked into the Octa repositories on GitHub and stole the source code.
In addition, in October, the popular 1Password detected suspicious activity in its Octa instance related to an incident in the customer support system. 1Password uses the services of Octa, the largest provider of security tools, to manage applications designed for employees.
