Salesforce breach: What IT leaders must know

Salesforce is one of the world's largest software as a service (SaaS) providers, with product offerings in customer relationship management (CRM), sales, marketing and financial services.

Just ahead of Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference in October 2025, the company experienced a significant data breach. A sophisticated extortion group launched a dark web data leak site, threatening to expose sensitive information stolen from major organizations whose customer data was stored in Salesforce instances. The attackers claimed to have exfiltrated approximately one billion records.

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