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Salesforce launches ‘Missionforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-24 22:00:00

Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision making, according to a company press release. Missionforce will be helmed by Kendall Collins, who joined Salesforce in 2023 and is currently the chief business officer and chief of staff to Salesforce C

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Salesforce launches ‘Missonforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-25 03:00:00

Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. The customer relationship management giant announced the creation of a new business unit called Missionforce on Tuesday. It will be focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows in three main areas: personnel, logistics, and decision making, according to a company press release. Missionforce will be helmed by Kendall Collins, who joined Salesforce in 2023 and is currently the chief business officer and chief of staff to Salesforce C

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FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-28 00:56:40

The FBI has issued a FLASH alert warning that two threat clusters, tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395, are compromising organizations’ Salesforce environments to steal data and extort victims. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with recent malicious cyber activities by cyber criminal groups UNC6040 and UNC6395, responsible for a rising number of data theft and extortion intrusions," reads the FBI's FLASH advis

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Benioff says he's 'inspired' by Palantir, but takes another jab at its prices

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-09-28 07:01:35

Marc Benioff is keeping an eye on Palantir . The co-founder and CEO of sales and customer service management software company Salesforce is well aware that investors are betting big on Palantir, which offers data management software to businesses and government agencies. "Oh my gosh. I am so inspired by that company," Benioff told CNBC's Morgan Brennan in a Tuesday interview at Goldman Sachs ' Communacopia+Technology conference in San Francisco. "I mean, not just because they have 100 times, y

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More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach: What to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-04 19:58:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Sensitive personal information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including their names and Social Security numbers, was exposed in a data breach on credit bureau TransUnion, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting companies' Salesforce databases. The data breach, which occurred on July 28, was identified and contained within hours, a TransUnion spokesperson told CNET. TransUnion is

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Salesloft: March GitHub repo breach led to Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-08 15:43:30

Salesloft says attackers first breached its GitHub account in March, leading to the theft of Drift OAuth tokens later used in widespread Salesforce data theft attacks in August. Salesloft is a widely used sales engagement platform that helps companies manage outreach and customer communications. Its Drift platform is a conversational marketing tool that integrates chatbots and automation into sales pipelines, including integrations with platforms like Salesforce. The two have been at the cente

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Financial services firm Wealthsimple discloses data breach

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-10 15:36:48

Wealthsimple, a leading Canadian online investment management service, has disclosed a data breach after attackers stole the personal data of an undisclosed number of customers in a recent incident. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Toronto, the financial services firm holds over CAD$84.5 billion in assets (approximately $61 billion). It offers a wide range of financial products targeting investments, trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending, and savings to over 3 million Canadians. We

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops nearly 5% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-12 03:01:44

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped nearly 5%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 27%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops more than 5% on weak guidance

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-12 11:26:14

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped more than 5%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 27%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for t

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More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-12 11:15:00

The TransUnion data breach exposed the data of up to 4.4 million customers. CNET Sensitive personal information belonging to 4.4 million customers, including names and Social Security numbers, was exposed in a data breach on credit bureau TransUnion, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting companies' Salesforce databases. The data breach, which occurred on July 28, was identified and contained within hours, a TransUnion spokesperson told CNET. TransUnion is one of

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5 Things to Know About Why Salesforce Stock is Cratering

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-10-12 23:08:57

Salesforce stock was down almost 8% this morning after a disappointing earnings report last night. The company shared third quarter revenue forecast that came in below expectations and investors worry that has to do with AI monetization problems. The company is all-in on AI, but Wall Street’s patience for the ROI countdown is running thin it seems. At least it’s running thin enough that even though second-quarter revenue came in pretty good and the company shared a $20 billion increase to its

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops 7% on disappointing guidance

cnbc.com Ari Levy 2025-10-13 03:49:51

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2025. A bad year just got worse for Salesforce . Following a disappointing revenue forecast in its quarterly earnings report late Wednesday, Salesforce's stock slumped 8%, bringing its decline for 2025 to 28%. That's the worst performance in large-cap tech. Revenue increased 10% in the fiscal second quarter from a year earlier, cracking double-digit growth for the first t

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Salesforce issues weak revenue guidance even as earnings beat estimates

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-14 11:32:43

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, sits for an interview in San Francisco on April 25, 2025. Salesforce issued disappointing guidance on Wednesday, even as earnings and revenue topped estimates for the fiscal second quarter. The stock dropped 4% in extended trading. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $2.91 adjusted vs. $2.78 expected $2.91 adjusted vs. $2.78 expected Revenue: $10.24 billion vs. $10.14 billion expected Revenue incre

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SaaS giant Workiva discloses data breach after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-15 03:40:44

Workiva, a leading cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) provider, notified its customers that attackers who gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) system stole some of their data. The company's cloud software helps collect, connect, and share data for financial reports, compliance, and audits. It had 6,305 customers at the end of last year and reported revenues of $739 million in 2024. Its customer list includes 85% of the Fortune 500 companies and high-profi

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Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads' with AI

cnbc.com Scott Budman 2025-10-16 02:59:01

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff participates in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22, 2025. Salesforce has cut 4,000 of its customer support roles, CEO Marc Benioff recently said while discussing how artificial intelligence has helped reduce the company headcount. Benioff revealed the layoffs during an interview published Friday on The Logan Bartlett Show podcast. "I've reduced it from 9,000 heads to about 5,000, because I need less heads," Benioff said while

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Salesforce is having a bad year. This is where investors want to see growth

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-10-17 11:20:18

Marc Benioff, co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, attends the 50th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2020. There was a moment, during the pandemic-fueled growth days of 2020, when Salesforce surpassed Oracle by market cap. Marc Benioff had finally toppled his protege, Larry Ellison. That moment is long gone. Salesforce's stock price has dropped 25% this year, the worst performance in large-cap tech and the second-steepest decline in the Dow, beating only UnitedHealth . Mea

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support cases

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-17 17:00:00

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance. The company states that it was one of hundreds of companies affected by a supply-chain attack disclosed last week, in which threat actors abused the stolen authentication tokens to exfiltrate data. BleepingComputer learned of the breach this weekend from Palo Alto Networks' customers, who expres

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support tickets

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-18 03:00:00

Palo Alto Networks suffered a data breach that exposed customer data and support cases after attackers abused compromised OAuth tokens from the Salesloft Drift breach to access its Salesforce instance. The company states that it was one of hundreds of companies affected by a supply-chain attack disclosed last week, in which threat actors abused the stolen authentication tokens to exfiltrate data. BleepingComputer learned of the breach this weekend from Palo Alto Networks' customers, who expres

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The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft

krebsonsecurity.com Unknown 2025-10-18 18:55:04

The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials before hackers can exploit them. Now Google warns the breach goes far beyond access to Salesforce data, noting the hackers responsible also stole valid authentication tokens for hundreds of online services that customers can integrate with Salesloft,

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Zscaler data breach exposes customer info after Salesloft Drift compromise

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-19 20:00:00

Cybersecurity company Zscaler warns it suffered a data breach after threat actors gained access to its Salesforce instance and stole customer information, including the contents of support cases. This warning follows the compromise of Salesloft Drift, an AI chat agent that integrates with Salesforce, in which attackers stole OAuth and refresh tokens, enabling them to gain access to customer Salesforce environments and exfiltrate sensitive data. In an advisory, Zscaler says that its Salesforce

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Google warns Salesloft breach impacted some Workspace accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-23 03:09:24

Google now reports that the Salesloft Drift breach is larger than initially thought, warning that attackers also used stolen OAuth tokens to access a small number of Google Workspace email accounts in addition to stealing data from Salesforce instances. "Based on new information identified by GTIG, the scope of this compromise is not exclusive to the Salesforce integration with Salesloft Drift and impacts other integrations,' warns Google. "We now advise all Salesloft Drift customers to treat

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Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-10-26 23:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Salesforce is betting that rigorous testing in simulated business environments will solve one of enterprise artificial intelligence’s biggest problems: agents that work in demonstrations but fail in the messy reality of corporate operations. The cloud software giant unveiled three major AI research initiatives this week, including CRMArena

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Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 02:12:53

Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens from its Drift chat agent integration with Salesforce to pivot to customer environments and exfiltrate data. The ShinyHunters extortion group claims responsibility for these additional Salesforce attacks. Salesloft's SalesDrift is a third-party platform that connects the Drift AI chat agent with a Salesforce instance, allowing organizations to sync conversations, leads, and support cases into their CRM. Acc

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Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-30 10:48:51

U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks. Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide. The company disclosed the data breach in an advisory on its website, saying that its da

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Hackers leak Allianz Life data stolen in Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-22 10:03:47

Hackers have released stolen data belonging to US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing 2.8 million records with sensitive information on business partners and customers in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Last month, Allianz Life disclosed that it suffered a data breach when the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was stolen from a third-party, cloud-based CRM system on July 16th. While the company did not name the provider, BleepingComputer first repor

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Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers' info

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-27 04:15:59

Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers. "We're writing to let you know about an event that affected a limited set of data in one of Google's corporate Salesforce instances used to communicate with prospective Ads customers," reads a data breach notification shared with BleepingComputer. "Our records indicate basic business contact information and related notes were impacted by

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Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 20:05:34

In June, Google said it unearthed a campaign that was mass-compromising accounts belonging to customers of Salesforce. The means: an attacker pretending to be someone in the customer's IT department feigning some sort of problem that required immediate access to the account. Two months later, Google has disclosed that it, too, was a victim. The series of hacks are being carried out by financially motivated threat actors out to steal data in hopes of selling it back to the targets at sky-high pr

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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 00:16:39

Danish jewelry giant Pandora has disclosed a data breach after its customer information was stolen in the ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Pandora is one of the largest jewellery brands in the world, with 2,700 locations and over 37,000 employees. "We are writing to inform you that your contact information was accessed by an unauthorized party through a third-party platform we use," reads a Pandora data breach notification sent to customers. "We stopped the access and have further stren

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Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-09 05:54:17

French fashion giant Chanel is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce data theft attacks. Chanel says the breach was first detected on July 25th after threat actors gained access to a Chanel database hosted at a third-party service provider, as first reported by WWD. The breach only impacted customers in the United States and exposed personal contact information. "Based on the findings of the investigation, the data obtained by the unauthorized external pa

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ShinyHunters behind Salesforce data theft attacks at Qantas, Allianz Life, and LVMH

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-17 04:52:39

A wave of data breaches impacting companies like Qantas, Allianz Life, LVMH, and Adidas has been linked to the ShinyHunters extortion group, which has been using voice phishing attacks to steal data from Salesforce CRM instances. In June, Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) warned that threat actors tracked as UNC6040 were targeting Salesforce customers in social engineering attacks. In these attacks, the threat actors impersonated IT support staff in phone calls to targeted employees, a

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Salesforce launches ‘Missionforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

Salesforce launches ‘Missonforce,’ a national security-focused business unit

FBI warns of UNC6040, UNC6395 hackers stealing Salesforce data

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More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach: What to Know

Salesloft: March GitHub repo breach led to Salesforce data theft attacks

Financial services firm Wealthsimple discloses data breach

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Salesforce slump deepens as stock drops more than 5% on weak guidance

More Than 4.4 Million Exposed in Credit Bureau TransUnion Breach

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Salesforce CEO confirms 4,000 layoffs ‘because I need less heads' with AI

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Palo Alto Networks data breach exposes customer info, support tickets

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Zscaler data breach exposes customer info after Salesloft Drift compromise

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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

Fashion giant Chanel hit in wave of Salesforce data theft attacks

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