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Attackers copied patient data from old Cerner data-migration servers that Oracle Health had not yet moved to Oracle Cloud, and US hospitals were then extorted over it.

Google's threat researchers said a crew posing as IT support on the phone was talking employees into approving a fake Data Loader app, then bulk-stealing their companies' Salesforce data for extortion.

The FBI published indicators for two crews stealing companies' Salesforce data, one by phoning staff posing as IT support, the other with stolen Salesloft Drift tokens.

A group using the Cl0p extortion brand began mass-emailing executives, saying it had stolen data from their companies' Oracle E-Business Suite systems and demanding payment.

The gang posted samples from 39 companies' stolen Salesforce data and told Salesforce to pay by 10 October or see about a billion records leaked.

With the gang's leak deadline three days away, Salesforce emailed customers that it would not engage, negotiate with or pay any extortion demand.

The WorldLeaks extortion gang listed Nike on its leak site on 22 January 2026 and then dumped about 1.4TB of what it said were 188,347 internal Nike design and manufacturing files; Nike said only that it was investigating a potential cybersecurity incident.