British police arrest 2 more teenagers related to hacker group Lapsus$-Information Technology

British police have charged two teenagers in an international investigation into the Lapsus$ extortion hacker group, which recently attacked Microsoft and Okta.

Two teenagers aged 16 and 17 will appear before Highbury Corner Peace Court next week in connection with Lapsus$, according to the City of London police.

According to Inspector Michael O’Sullivan, the two teenagers were charged with unauthorized access to a computer in order to degrade reliability and prevent data access, as well as fraud. The 16-year-old was also charged with using a computer to gain unauthorized access to software.

Police in many countries are cooperating to investigate the Lapsus$ hacker group. Although seven members of the group’s age have been arrested, the group is said to have “returned” to activity this week. London police have also detained and released six people aged between 16 and 21 in connection with the investigation.

Access management service company Okta – one of Lapsus$’s victims – said the group of hackers may have gained access to about 2.5% of Okta’s customers.

Okta’s chief cybersecurity officer David Bradbury did not say specifically what the data was accessed, but some speculated that personal information and customer access data could have been leaked to many people. other side.

Microsoft has also confirmed that a group of hackers hacked into “a single account” and stole part of the source code for Microsoft products. The Lapsus$ side claims to own about 45% of the source code of Bing and Cortana, and 90% of the source code of Bing Maps.