Sophisticated hackers have gone after cyber security giant RSA and potentially compromised the two-factor authentication system used by tens of millions of end users of the company's clients, which include large banks and other corporations and credit unions.
RSA, a division of EMC, placed the attack in the Advanced Persistent Threat category, which typically means the attackers had undetected access to sensitive data for some period of time.
RSA's executive chairman, Art Coviello, said the company has found that information "specifically related" to its widely used SecurID two-factor authentication products was involved.
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