Security News > 2021 > December > Kronos Ransomware Outage Drives Widespread Payroll Chaos

Kronos, the workforce management platform, has been hit with a ransomware attack that it says will leave its cloud-based services unavailable for several weeks - and it's suggesting that customers seek other ways to get payroll and other HR tasks accomplished.

Kronos offers a range of solutions for employee scheduling, compensation management, payroll and hours worked, benefits administration, time off management, talent acquisition, onboarding and more.

In a message to Kronos Private Cloud customers late afternoon on Sunday, the company said that several solutions were knocked offline starting Saturday: UKG Workforce Central, UKG TeleStaff, Healthcare Extensions and Banking Scheduling Solutions.

"We continue to recommend that our impacted customers evaluate alternative plans to process time and attendance data for payroll processing, to manage schedules, and to manage other related operations important to their organization."

Multiple customers left comments that speak to the chaos the outage is creating within their organizations, and noted that an ongoing, extended disruption of service is unacceptable in their view.

Several expressed worries as to the safety of their data housed in the Kronos cloud; and at least one customer has questions about the company's backups.

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