Google’s Salesforce Breach Explained: What It Means for Gmail Users and What to Do Now

Larrylowther15 Sep, 2025Technology

Google’s own threat intelligence team had warned in June about a wave of “vishing” attacks, where criminals call employees and coax access to corporate systems. On 5 August, Google updated that post to say one of its Salesforce instances had been impacted in June and that data was “retrieved by the threat actor during a small window of time” before access was shut down.