Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to ...

Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for targeting big companies and their cloud-based databases.

The database containing the compromised passwords was ironically unencrypted and not password-protected itself, a report said.

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.