CRM giant 'will not engage, negotiate with, or pay' the scumbags

Salesforce won't pay a ransom demand to criminals who claim to have stolen nearly 1 billion customer records and are threatening to leak the data if the CRM giant doesn't pony up some cash.

"Salesforce will not engage, negotiate with, or pay any extortion demand," Allen Tsai, a Salesforce spokesperson, told The Register. It has reportedly told customers the same thing.

The SaaS giant declined to answer any additional questions and directed us to the company's official statements about the security incident. The most recent update, from October 2, says Salesforce is "aware of recent extortion attempts by threat actors, which we have investigated in partnership with external experts and authorities."

These attempts to extort ransom payments "relate to past or unsubstantiated incidents, and we remain engaged with affected customers to provide support," it continues. "At this time, there is no indication that the Salesforce platform has ...