Google has confirmed a cybersecurity breach in which hackers accessed a corporate database containing business contact information. The tech giant claimed that the attack was linked to UNC6040.

ShinyHunters finds its way into Google systems, but the search engine giant says it's nothing to be worried about.

The group accessed a Google corporate account with Salesforce, which supplies customer relationship management services.

Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for targeting big companies and their cloud-based databases.

Google said that a cybercriminal hacking group broke into one of its own Salesforce database systems that stored information about small and medium-sized businesses. Why it matters: Even Google isn't completely resilient against the wave of social engineering attacks targeting major businesses this year.

ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers.… In a late-Tuesday update to an earlier blog post,

Google has confirmed a data breach involving one of its Salesforce databases, compromised in June 2025 by the hacking group ShinyHunters, also known as UNC6040.

Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) has confirmed a data breach that has affected some of its customers. The breach was attributed to a hacking group known as ShinyHunters, also referred to as UNC6040.

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