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Your Salesforce Data Just Got Leashed to Machine Ghosts—700 Firms Learn the Hard Way

Imagine your entire customer support history—tickets, queries, secrets—dumped into hacker hands via a forgotten AI token. That's reality for 700 companies right now, and machine accounts are the culprits exploding past human oversight.

Timeline infographic of Salesloft-Drift OAuth breach from GitHub compromise to exfiltration of 700+ Salesforce tenants

⚡ Key Takeaways

  • Machine identities outnumber humans 20:1 and hold god-mode perms—your new top risk.
  • Drift OAuth breach exfiltrated data from 700+ firms undetected for days.
  • Non-human governance tools set to boom into $5B market by 2028 amid rising regs.

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Priya Sundaram
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Priya Sundaram

Hardware and infrastructure reporter. Tracks GPU wars, chip design, and the compute economy.

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Originally reported by Towards AI

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