Security News > 2022 > February > Kronos Still Dragging Itself Back From Ransomware Hell

Customers including Tesla, PepsiCo and NYC transit workers are filing lawsuits over the "Real pain in the rear end" of manual inputting, inaccurate wages & more.

It turns out that dragging its Kronos Private Cloud systems back has taken nearly two months.

As of Jan. 22, it wasn't yet done dragging them back, but aggrieved customers had started the process of dragging the company into court as scheduling and payroll was disrupted at thousands of employers - including hospitals - many of which have been forced to log hours manually.

As NPR reported on Jan. 15, some 8 million people experienced "Administrative chaos" following the attack, including tens of thousands of public transit workers in the New York City metro area, public service workers in Cleveland, employees of FedEx and Whole Foods, and "Medical workers across the country who were already dealing with an omicron surge that has filled hospitals and exacerbated worker shortages."

The subsequent lawsuits include a class action filed by New York transit workers claiming that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has "Failed to pay certain employees any overtime wages since their payroll administrator was crippled by a December 2021 data breach."

Workers at Tesla and PepsiCo have also brought separate lawsuits over the UKG payroll outage, claiming that they received inaccurate pay during the outage.

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https://threatpost.com/kronos-dragging-itself-back-ransomware-hell/178213/