'Retired' cybercrime group demands ransom not to leak 1B Salesforce records

Despite multiple arrests and talk of retirement, a crew now calling itself Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters has reemerged with a data-leak site listing about 40 companies’ Salesforce environments, and is demanding an extortion payment (amount unknown) to prevent what it claims is about 1 billion stolen records from being published …

[Doctor Syntax]

""Yes it does have something to do with recent arrests"

Maybe the ones who got arrested had control of all the crypto wallets. It would certainly be worth while having the investigators considering that possibility.

[W.S.Gosset]

Bargain

>and is demanding $989.45

Well. That seems quite reasonable.

[Anonymous Coward]

What are the chances?

Anyone want to wager that there has been another, as yet unannounced hack of salesforce.

[werdsmith]

Re: What are the chances?

I suspect that the recent Renault leak was SAAS Salesforce and we will be hearing from Salesforce customers soon.