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Salesforce refuses to pay ransom over widespread data theft attacks

Salesforce has confirmed that it will not negotiate with or pay a ransom to the threat actors behind a massive wave of data theft attacks that impacted the company's customers this year. As first reported by Bloomberg, Salesforce emailed customers on Tuesday to say they would not be paying a ransom and warned that "credible threat intelligence" indicates the threat actors were planning to leak the stolen data. "I can confirm Salesforce will not engage, negotiate with, or pay any extortion demand," Salesforce also confirmed to BleepingComputer. This statement follows the launch of a data leak site by threat actors known as "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters," who are attempting to extort 39 companies whose data was stolen from Salesforce. The website was located on the breachforums[.]hn domain,…

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