Massive Cyberattack Hits Salesforce Affecting 760 Companies

October 7, 2025

INCIDENT

Extortion groups claim to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies. The breach led to unauthorized access to customer data stored within Salesforce instances integrated with the Salesloft Drift app. Customers who had integrated with the Salesloft Drift app and shared data with it were directly impacted.

The attacks were claimed by threat actors stating they are part of the ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and Lapsus$ extortion groups, now calling themselves "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters." Google tracks this activity as UNC6040 and UNC6395.

Incident Date

August 8, 2025

Estimated Cost


No cost values disclosed.