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Hackers claim to have stolen over a billion Salesforce records - and are demanding nearly $1 billion not to leak them

Code Skull.
  • Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters launch data leak site to pressure victims into ransom negotiations
  • Attackers exploited Salesloft’s Drift app to access Salesforce customer data, not Salesforce itself
  • Victims include Cloudflare, Zscaler, Tenable; Salesforce denies platform compromise or active vulnerabilities

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, a team-up of infamous hacking groups Scattered Spider, Lapsus$, and Shiny Hunters, has apparently created a standalone data leak and extortion page in order to pressure its victims into paying their ransom demands.

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