Salesforce says social engineering to blame for breaches leading to ransom demands

Hackers claiming to have accessed and stolen nearly 1 billion Salesforce records set up a site on the dark web late last week, demanding a ransom from 39 companies and Salesforce itself before releasing the records. The hackers gave a deadline of Oct. 10, 2025.

The hackers, who go by the moniker Shiny Hunters and published the list on a site they call Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, published what they claimed were samples of stolen data from brands like Adidas, Cisco, FedEx, Disney and more. 

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