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Battered by cyberattacks, is Salesforce facing a trust problem?

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The FBI warned about the alarming trend of compromised accounts.

The success rate of threat actors could tarnish Salesforce's reputation.

The most recent wave of attacks was likely preventable.

Since Salesforce's founding in 1999, the company's executive team has made trust the top priority for the organization and its employees. In a post titled "Trust is our #1 value," the company states that "our trust-first culture is based on ensuring that our customers know their data is safe, and theirs -- to be accessed when, where, and how they intend."

However, recent data thefts involving Salesforce's infrastructure suggest that the cloud company is encountering avoidable difficulties in delivering on that promise.

Also: Your passkeys could be vulnerable to attack, and everyone - including you - must act

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