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The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft
Krebs on Security ^ | 09/03/2025 | Krebs

Posted on 09/03/2025 11:19:43 AM PDT by aimhigh

The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen credentials before hackers can exploit them. Now Google warns the breach goes far beyond access to Salesforce data, noting the hackers responsible also stole valid authentication tokens for hundreds of online services that customers can integrate with Salesloft, including Slack, Google Workspace, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and OpenAI.

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1 posted on 09/03/2025 11:19:43 AM PDT by aimhigh
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To: aimhigh

Online purchases seem to become a little more dangerous every day. At this rate, it seems like in another year of two, I’ll be back to local purchases only. Maybe cash only.


2 posted on 09/03/2025 11:23:55 AM PDT by jimtorr
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Just as I started binge watching all the YouTube videos about how “so-and-so” age 21 worth $30 million coding SaaS (or doing online sales) using AI, and you can too!

I think the Tech Bros are going to be none-too-pleased, given the enormous (hundreds of billions of dollars over the last 18 months) they have invested in hardware and data centers.


3 posted on 09/03/2025 11:27:18 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: aimhigh

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/09/03/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-brags-about-cutting-4000-jobs-as-ai-agents-take-over/


4 posted on 09/03/2025 11:28:18 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: jimtorr
Online purchases seem to become a little more dangerous every day. At this rate, it seems like in another year of two, I’ll be back to local purchases only. Maybe cash only.

I'm heading in that direction also.
5 posted on 09/03/2025 11:33:33 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: aimhigh

Try an AI chatbot, they said. It will be great, they said.


6 posted on 09/03/2025 11:43:11 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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