New ask Hacker News story: WorkOS reports security breach
WorkOS reports security breach 11 by werrett | 0 comments on Hacker News. It's not on their website or Trust center yet, but we received the following breach notification from WorkOS: We are writing to notify you of a data security incident that we detected on October 30, 2026 and are continuing to investigate. We value your trust and want to keep you informed while our investigation continues. What Happened On October 30, 2026, at 16:39 UTC, WorkOS detected anomalous traffic to an internal business system. Our investigation identified evidence the attack was likely driven by ARTEX, an AI-assisted, autonomous penetration testing framework, from IP addresses based in Hong Kong and China. The unauthorized actor gained access to an internal API used by our sales and marketing tools. Through this service, it was able to access data from our Salesforce and Snowflake instances. These systems hold business contact information, account and commercial information, aggregated and de-ident...