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08 November 2007

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) Suffers Data Breach

Australian IT is reporting (to see article click here) that on-line CRM services company Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) suffered an IT security breach.   Salesforce has admitted the cause of the incident as being attributed to an employee being duped by a "phishing scam".

The company has admitted customer account information including passwords may have been compromised by non-authorized parties.  According to the article by Australian IT there are more than 1,000 subscribers to Salesforce.com may have been affected in Australia alone.

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