Salesforce refuses to pay ransom to hacker threatening data leak - Bloomberg
Oct 7, 2025
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Salesforce Inc. informed customers on Tuesday that it will not pay a ransom to a hacker group that claimed to have stolen substantial client data and threatened to publish it, according to Bloomberg News.
In a security notification email, the company disclosed it had received "credible threat intelligence" that a hacking group known as ShinyHunters planned to release information stolen during a security incident earlier this year affecting multiple customers.
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