What the Salesforce and Google outages reveal about token theft and downtime

Two outages on the same day in September made one thing clear: when the cloud goes dark, identity security goes with it — and that’s the part attackers wait for.

On September 16, 2026, Salesforce went down for seven hours. The same day, Google Drive went dark for 39 minutes.

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