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Google Salesforce system breach exposes advertising customer data

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Google's internal Salesforce system was breached, exposing customer information including business contact details of advertising customers. Voice phishing impersonating IT support was identified as the attack method, and the data of 2.5 million advertising customers was reportedly leaked. Google later denied claims that 2.5 billion Gmail users had been hacked. The attackers demanded the sacking of security experts and threatened further data leaks.

Key facts

Affected organisation
Google
Incident type
Data breach
Occurred / detected
Not confirmed
Scale of damage
Data of 2.5 million advertising customers
Cause / method
Breach of internal Salesforce system via voice phishing impersonating IT support
Location
United States

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Timeline

  1. Google said customer information was stolen in a breach of its internal Salesforce system.
  2. Voice phishing impersonating IT support and the leak of data on 2.5 million Google advertising customers were reported.
  3. It came to light that the stolen information included business contact details of Google advertising customers.
  4. Google said warnings of a Gmail data breach were false.
  5. Google denied claims that 2.5 billion Gmail users had been affected by a hack.
  6. Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters demanded that Google sack security experts and threatened to leak data.

32 related reports

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