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Lammy on May 31, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacker confirms access through infostealer infecti...

> were able to sign into a Snowflake employee’s ServiceNow account using stolen credentials, thus bypassing OKTA

It's probably not technically relevant to the breach, but it's at least interesting that the CEO of Snowflake is the former CEO of ServiceNow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Slootman

nphard85 on May 31, 2024 [–]

The current CEO is Sridhar Ramaswamy

Lammy on May 31, 2024 | [–]

Yes (since February), although according to the article the infection happened in October 2023 during Slootman's tenure.

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