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Criminals Behind Salesloft Breach Continue to Target Salesforce-Using CustomersCustomer relationship management software giant Salesforce has directly notified customers that it won't be complying with ransom demands issued by the data-stealing crime group ShinyHunters, which continues to pressure Salesforce-using customers who fell victim to the Salesloft breach.

CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.…

Salesforce has confirmed that it will not negotiate with or pay a ransom to the threat actors behind a massive wave of data theft attacks that impacted the company's customers this year. [...]

A cybercriminal group that used voice phishing attacks to siphon more than a billion records from Salesforce customers earlier this year has launched a website that threatens to publish data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms if they refuse to pay a ransom. The group also claimed responsibility for a recent breach involving Discord user data, and for stealing terabytes of sensitive files from thousands of customers of the enterprise software maker Red Hat.

Discord said a third-party customer services provider was compromised to access user data, with the attackers aiming to extort a financial ransom

Proliferating Age Verification Systems a Hacker TargetA vendor breach linked to Discord exposed government ID uploads used in age verification, raising alarms among privacy experts who warn that third-party data collection systems are becoming high-value targets amid rising legislative mandates for online age checks.