ShinyHunters steal 25M records again.

Healthcare giant Alcon Inc. had the privilege of losing over 25 million Salesforce records packed with personal information to extortion group ShinyHunters. The criminals generously set an August 4, 2026 deadline for contact before dumping all that sensitive data online for everyone to enjoy. To save ourselves from facing identical extortion countdowns, auditing cloud CRM permissions and enforcing strict access controls is the bare minimum we ought to try.