Security News > 2021 > March > Payroll giant PrismHR outage likely caused by ransomware attack

Leading payroll company PrismHR is suffering a massive outage after suffering a cyberattack this weekend that looks like a ransomware attack from conversations with customers.

In email templates provided by PrismHR, PEOs are telling clients that PrismHR "Is currently experiencing an interruption of service impacting over 200 PEOs across the United States."

PrismHR has told customers that their data was not stolen during the attack.

"We recently experienced a cyber incident that affected our payroll and benefits software used by Professional Employer Organizations throughout the US. We immediately disabled access to the system to protect customer information and engaged top-tier security experts to help on this. We are working quickly to restore customer access to our platform. While we are still looking into this, there is currently no evidence of unauthorized access or theft of data contained on our servers." - PrismHR. Likely a ransomware attack.

While PrismHR has not specified what kind of cyber incident was detected, from the details shared with BleepingComputer, this is likely a ransomware attack.

While PrismHR has told clients that there has not been a breach of data and that payroll is secure, we will not know for sure unless the ransomware gangs leak the data.

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