{"id":966061,"date":"2025-10-04T10:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966061"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:16:18","slug":"hackers-claim-they-have-stolen-1-billion-records-from-salesforce-customer-databases-software-company-replies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/04\/hackers-claim-they-have-stolen-1-billion-records-from-salesforce-customer-databases-software-company-replies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers claim they have stolen 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases, software company replies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An English-speaking hacking group \u2014 operating under names like Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters \u2013 has launched a dedicated data leak website on the dark web to extort its victims, a report has said, adding that the group, now calling the site Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, is threatening to release approximately one billion records stolen from companies using cloud databases hosted by Salesforce.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by TechCrunch, the website, spotted by threat intelligence researchers on Friday (October 3), is designed to pressure victims into paying a ransom to prevent the publication of their stolen data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An English-speaking hacking group \u2014 operating under names like Lapsus$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters \u2013 has launched a dedicated data leak website on the dark web to extort its victims, a report has said, adding that the group, now calling the site Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, is threatening to release approximately one billion records stolen from companies using cloud databases hosted by Salesforce. According to a report by TechCrunch, the website, spotted by threat intelligence researchers on Friday (October 3), is designed to pressure victims into paying a ransom to prevent the publication of their stolen data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}