Salesforce tells clients it won’t pay hackers’ ransom demand, Bloomberg reports

Salesforce (CRM) informed customers that it will not pay a ransom demand from a hacker who alleged to have stolen a large amount of client information and threatened to publish it, Bloomberg’s Margi Murphy, Jake Bleiberg, and Brody Ford report, citing an email. The company said it received “credible threat intelligence” suggesting that a hacker group known as ShinyHunters was planning to share information stolen during a security incident earlier this year, the authors note. A spokesperson for Salesforce said the company will not engage, negotiate with, or pay any extortion demand, Bloomberg notes.