Google says database holding customer data breached by hackers
Google has revealed that one of its Salesforce database systems, used for holding information on small- and medium-sized businesses, was breached by hackers. The intrusion has been attributed to ShinyHunters, a cybercrime group known for extorting companies with stolen data.
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An August 5 posting by the Google Threat Intelligence Group has confirmed that one of the corporate databases was impacted by hackers thought to be associated with the ShinyHunters ransomware group, more formally known as UNC6040.
“Google responded to the activity, performed an impact analysis and began mitigations,” the GTIG posting stated, adding the database in question was a Salesforce instance “used to store contact information and related notes for small and medium businesses.”
Customer data was, Google said, “retrieved by the threat actor,” in the short period of time that the attack window remained open. Although Google has not gone into great detail regarding the attack as of yet, it did confirm that the stolen data consisted of “basic and largely publicly available business information, such as business names and contact details.”