Cybersecurity News by Jose Bolanos MD

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87a. The Google Data Breach 2.5 Billion Users!

Salesforce was the open door?

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Jose Bolanos MD
Oct 15, 2025
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1. What Happened: A Major Breach via a Salesforce Instance

In mid-2025, Google disclosed a serious security incident: threat actors infiltrated one of its corporate Salesforceinstances that held business contact records related to small- and medium-sized customers. The attacker group behind the incident is widely believed to be ShinyHunters (also tracked under aliases UNC6040 / UNC6240).

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