# New socially engineered google data breach

**URL:** <https://community.redact.dev/t/new-socially-engineered-google-data-breach/95>\
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**Created:** [August 6, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/new-socially-engineered-google-data-breach/95 "2025-08-06T23:39:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/new-socially-engineered-google-data-breach/95/1 "2025-08-06T23:39:38Z")

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According to Google’s own disclosure and surrounding coverage, **[ShinyHunters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShinyHunters)** tricked employees into installing a booby-trapped copy of Salesforce Data Loader, then siphoned off a trove of SMB contact info (notes, emails, phone numbers etc.)

Classic case of a breach using social engineering as the way-in to harvesting customer data; from one of the biggest companies in the world.

This kind of attack is only going to become cheaper to run, easier, and as a result - more common, and with a lower bar for targets.

> **[Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-suffers-data-breach-in-ongoing-salesforce-data-theft-attacks/)**
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> Google is the latest company to suffer a data breach in an ongoing wave of Salesforce CRM data theft attacks conducted by the ShinyHunters extortion group.