Faulty database script brings Salesforce to its knees

From zdnet.com

Salesforce

Salesforce is going through one of its biggest outages ever after the company was forced to shut down large chunks of its infrastructure earlier today.

At the heart of the outage was a change the company made to its production environment that broke access permission settings across organizations and gave employees access to all of their company’s files.

According to reports on Reddit, users didn’t just get read access, but they also received write permissions, making it easy for malicious employees to steal or tamper with a company’s data.

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