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ShinyHunters hack 7-Eleven: franchisee data and Salesforce records exposed

7-Eleven confirmed a breach after ShinyHunters claimed theft of over 600,000 Salesforce records and franchisee data. 7-Eleven has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it stole more than 600,000 Salesforce records containing personal and corporate information. “Over 600k Salesforce records containing PII and other internal corporate data have been compromised.” The…

McGraw-Hill Confirms Data Exposure Tied to Salesforce Issue 

McGraw-Hill has confirmed unauthorized access to a limited set of internal data following a reported Salesforce misconfiguration.  The disclosure comes after an extortion threat that raised questions about the scale and sensitivity of the incident.  “ShinyHunters has no shortage of options for potential follow-up campaigns. They can target instructors with convincingly branded messages, pivot into…

Informatica Expands Microsoft Collaboration with Open Mirroring Support for Microsoft Fabric and Geographic Expansion for Microsoft Azure Point-of-Delivery

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT:  Informatica from Salesforce, a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, today announced deeper integration with Microsoft at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Atlanta. The announcement includes general availability of support for Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring, as well as the launch of a new Microsoft Azure-based IDMC point-of-delivery…

ShinyHunters claims new campaign targeting Salesforce Experience Cloud sites

Salesforce customers have, once again, been targeted by the ShinyHunters group – or, at least, it’s what the group claims. Attackers modified and abused benign tool On Saturday, Saleforce confirmed that its security team has identified an attack campaign by unnamed malicious actors looking to access customers’ data. The attackers are not leveraging a vulnerability…

Salesforce issues new security alert tied to third customer attack spree in six months

Threat hunters and a collection of unconfirmed victims are responding to a series of attacks targeting Salesforce customers, which the vendor disclosed in a security advisory Saturday.  “Salesforce is actively monitoring threat activity targeting public-facing Experience Cloud sites, including attempts to take advantage of overly permissive guest user configurations,” the company said in the alert.…

Overly permissive ‘guest’ settings put Salesforce customers at risk

Salesforce is urging its customers to review their Experience Cloud ‘guest’ configurations as cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims a new campaign involving data theft and extortion tied to exposed Salesforce environments. The group recently posted screenshots on its leak site claiming breaches of “several hundreds” of organizations, including around 400 websites and roughly 100 “high profile…

Salesforce Introduces Agentic Contact Center for AI, Channels, and CRM

Salesforce has unveiled the new Agentforce Contact Center, a contact center solution to unify voice, digital channels, CRM data, and AI agents into a single system. Salesforce promises customer self-service and AI-human handoff at scale The new solution enables customer self-service at scale, seamless AI-to-human handoffs, and real-time visibility across interactions. The solution is built…

Threat actors use custom AuraInspector to harvest data from Salesforce systems

Attackers are mass-scanning Salesforce Experience Cloud sites using a modified AuraInspector tool to exploit misconfigurations and access sensitive data. Salesforce CSOC warns that threat actors are mass-scanning publicly accessible Experience Cloud sites using a modified version of the AuraInspector tool. AuraInspector is an open‑source command‑line tool released by Google/Mandiant to audit Salesforce Aura and Experience…

Threat Actors Mass-Scan Salesforce Experience Cloud via Modified AuraInspector Tool

Salesforce has warned of an increase in threat actor activity that’s aimed at exploiting misconfigurations in publicly accessible Experience Cloud sites by making use of a customized version of an open-source tool called AuraInspector. The activity, per the company, involves the exploitation of customers’ overly permissive Experience Cloud guest user configurations to obtain access to…

Salesforce Revamps Consulting Partner Track for Agentic Era

Salesforce is overhauling its Consulting Track partner program, shifting from traditional implementation metrics to a results-driven model designed to support what it calls the “Agentic Enterprise” era. The company said the program update is intended to reward partners based on verifiable customer outcomes rather than legacy scorecards and administrative benchmarks.  With partners already leading 70%…