Plaid named Okta as its vendor of choice for building new OAuth connections between banks and the data aggregator. This week, financial data aggregator Plaid announced a partnership with identity ...

Frederic Kerrest, COO and co-founder at Okta, says the ‘Sign in with Okta’ uses an extension of OAuth called OpenID Connect, which his company has been supporting since 2016.

For some of the motivations for OAuth 2.1, see Lee McGovern from Okta’s post “ How Many RFCs Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb.” ...

Arc Treasury aims to provide our tech-forward customers with fast and secure data integrations for their banking needs. The new OAuth support from Plaid and Okta got us there in record time.” ...

Todd McKinnon, chief executive officer of Okta, said on Twitter early Tuesday morning the company had detected in January "an attempt to compromise" a third-party account with access to Okta systems.

Identity and authentication management provider Okta has been hit by another breach, this one against a third-party vendor that allowed hackers to steal personal information for 5,000 Okta employees.