Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Let's follow up on yesterday's big Infosec headlines. Octa has confirmed an attacker accessed an engineer's laptop in January,

consistent with posted screenshots by Lapsis, as customers of Octa struggle to

grasp their exposure to this potential hack.

And that's the point.

Octa is the service that you use to help you keep your stuff secure, your people secure,

so lots of folks are wondering to what degree this has exposed them.

Achta says the quote maximum potential impact of its security breach was

366 customers whose data was accessed by outside contractor sitel.

Octa has more than 15,000 clients in total, quoting Wired.

In an expanded statement on Tuesday afternoon, Octa's chief security officer David Bradbury

said categorically, quote, the octa service has not been breached

end quote the details that have emerged though including from Bradbury statement

itself paint a confusing picture and the conflicting information has made it difficult for

octa customers and others who depend on them to assess their risk and the extent of the

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