Salesforce Marketing Cloud Security Breach

Salesforce faced one of its biggest service disruption of ever may 19 2019 by pierluigi paganini salesforce is facing a huge outage it shut down a good portion of its infrastructure due to change to the production environment.

Salesforce marketing cloud security breach.

The incident could potentially affect a large number of companies including aldo dunkin donuts ge hautelook nestle waters and sony. Upguard scans billions of digital assets daily in depth across thousands of vectors. According to salesforce a marketing cloud update released between june 4 and july 7 introduced a code change which may have caused a small subset of rest api calls to improperly retrieve or write. Company engineers were scrambling on friday to protect user data and shut down service to major parts of its global user base creating one of the biggest outages in its history.

This report shows a preliminary security rating for salesforce. Salesforce a cloud hosted business relationship management software company warns some users of its marketing cloud that any stored information may have been viewed or modified by third parties due to an api error persistent from 4 june to july 18 as reported by experts in enterprise network security from the international institute of cyber security. Data leak detection vulnerability scanning and identity breach detection are just some of the advanced capabilities offered by the upguard platform. The us cloud computing company salesforce is warning marketing customers of a data leakage caused by an api error.

Salesforce builds security into every solution. A change in the production environment is the root cause of the broad outage suffered by salesforce. Even small businesses can use marketing automation that will help bring in new customers and nurture the ones they already have without an army of marketers. Salesforce the leading authority in cloud based crm recognizes the need for a secure cloud.