NEW YORK (PIX11) — Google is assuring customers that Gmail and its workspace are safe after a “widespread data theft campaign” that targeted Salesforce.
According to a spokesperson for the internet giant, authentication tokens for Salesloft Drift customers were compromised on Aug. 9. The hacker gained access to emails from Google Workspace accounts integrated with Salesloft.
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Between Aug. 9 and Aug. 18 the hacker accessed emails during an integration with “Drift Email” and “exported large volumes of data” from Salesforce, Google announced in a blog post.
The person appeared to be trying to find secrets from the company with the intent of compromising its environment, the blog post said.
Google has since recommended that organizations integrated with Drift should revoke and rotate credentials for those applications and investigate all connected systems for signs of unauthorized access.
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They’ve also disabled the integration between Google Workspace and Salesloft Drift and have notified all impacted Google Workspace customers.
A spokesperson for Google emphasized, however, that the data breach did not impact the accounts of customers who do not have Salesforce accounts.
