{"id":221829,"date":"2026-03-09T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/shinyhunters-claims-yet-another-salesforce-customers-breach-the-register\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:00:12","slug":"shinyhunters-claims-yet-another-salesforce-customers-breach-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/shinyhunters-claims-yet-another-salesforce-customers-breach-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"ShinyHunters claims yet another Salesforce customers breach \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/09\/shinyhunters_claims_more_highprofile_victims\/\">ShinyHunters claims yet another Salesforce customers breach \u2022 The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/09\/shinyhunters_claims_more_highprofile_victims\/\">https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/09\/shinyhunters_claims_more_highprofile_victims\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 14:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theregister.com\">www.theregister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ShinyHunters told The Register that it has stolen data from about 100 high-profile companies in its latest Salesforce customer data heist, including Salesforce itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have stolen data from almost 400 websites and about 100 essential high profile companies Snowflake, Okta, Lastpass, Salesforce itself, Sony, AMD, and a lot more,&#8221; a ShinyHunters spokesperson told us, adding that the &#8220;recon and exploitation has been going on for several months now.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This follows a Saturday warning from Salesforce that a &#8220;known threat actor group&#8221; is actively scanning for &#8211; and then breaking into and stealing data from &#8211; public-facing Experience Cloud sites using a modified version of a Mandiant-developed free scanning tool.<\/p>\n<p>A Salesforce spokesperson declined to answer The Register&#8217;s questions about the latest data-theft campaign, including how many customers are affected and if ShinyHunters is behind the illicit access.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This issue is not due to any vulnerability inherent to the Salesforce platform, but rather Experience Cloud sites where a guest user profile has been inadvertently configured with overly broad permissions,&#8221; the spokesperson said, directing us and its customers to this security advisory site for updates on the threat activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have provided customers with guidance to restrict guest user access to help safeguard their sites,&#8221; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The Register also reached out to Snowflake, Okta, LastPass, Sony, and AMD for comment, and will update this story as we hear back from them.<\/p>\n<p>Salesforce has been a longtime target of the extortion crew, which has stolen data from hundreds of the CRM giant&#8217;s customers in a series of attacks over the past year. ShinyHunters was also the crew behind the 2024 Snowflake customers&#8217; database intrusions.<\/p>\n<p>A LastPass spokesperson told us that they are aware of this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/09\/shinyhunters_claims_more_highprofile_victims\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShinyHunters claims yet another Salesforce customers breach \u2022 The Register https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2026\/03\/09\/shinyhunters_claims_more_highprofile_victims\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-09 14:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2023\/02\/15\/shutterstock_salesforce.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,34,27],"class_list":["post-221829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-threat-actor","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221831,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221829\/revisions\/221831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}