Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in to gain entry to its Salesforce instance.

Marc Benoit, chief information security officer at PAN, confirmed in a note to clients - seen by The Register - that it was informed on August 25 that the “compromise of a third-party application, Salesloft’s Drift, resulted in the access and exfiltration of data stored in our Salesforce environment.”

It immediately disconnected the third-party application from its Salesforce CRM, he said. “The investigation [by the Unit42 team] confirms that the event was isolated to our Salesforce environment and did not affect any Palo Alto Networks products, systems or services.

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