Technology · 10 March 2026

ShinyHunters took 100 companies' data from Salesforce.

Customers of around 100 large companies face potential data theft due to misconfigured guest access settings. The hacking group ShinyHunters claims it accessed client information from 400 organisations via Salesforce's Experience Cloud platform. Salesforce confirmed the issue is with how customers set up guest user profiles, not a flaw in its main system.

By BriefTea Editorial · 10 March 2026 at 14:57

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