Salesloft OAuth Breach via Drift AI Chat Agent Exposes Salesforce Customer Data
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A widespread data theft campaign has allowed hackers to breach sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens associated with the Drift artificial intelligence (AI) chat agent. The activity, assessed to be opportunistic in nature, has been attributed to a threat actor tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant, tracked as UNC6395. GTIG told The Hacker News that it's aware of over 700 potentially impacted organizations. "Beginning as early as August 8, 2025, through at least August 18, 2025, the actor targeted Salesforce customer instances through compromised OAuth tokens associated with the Salesloft Drift third-party application," researchers Austin Larsen, Matt Lin, Tyler McLellan, and Omar ElAhdan said. In these attacks, the threat actors have been observed exporting large volumes of data from numerous corporate Salesforce instances, with the likely aim of harvesting credentials that could be then used to compromise victim environments. These include Amazon Web Services (AWS) access keys (AKIA), passwords, and Snowflake-related access tokens. UNC6395 has also demonstrated operational security awareness by deleting query jobs, although Google is urging organizations to review relevant logs for evidence of data exposure, alongside revoking API keys, rotating credentials, and performing further investigation to determine the extent of compromise. Salesloft, in an advisory issued August 20, 2025, said it identified a security…Read More

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