Kronos Cyber Attack

[LogGrad98]

For any of you in the corporate business world, which is probably most on here, Kronos was the victim of a ransomware attack, and possible data breach, over the weekend.

For those of you unfamiliar with it, Kronos is a worldwide timekeeping/HR system with thousands of businesses as customers. This represents a pretty huge breach that could have extremely far-reaching effects.

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Workforce management solutions provider Kronos has suffered a ransomware attack that will likely disrupt many of their cloud-based solutions for weeks. Kronos i

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Workforce management solutions provider Kronos has suffered a ransomware attack that will likely disrupt many of their cloud-based solutions for weeks.

Kronos is a workforce management and human resources provider who provides cloud-based solutions for managing timekeeping, payroll, employee benefits, analytics, and more. In 2020, Kronos merged with Ultimate Software to create a new company named UKG.

Kronos’ software is used by many companies, including car manufacturers, education institutions, and local governments. Some of the customers using Kronos include Tesla, Temple University, Community Bank, and the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority,

 

[gandalfe]

I'm lucky, in that my company, while we do use Kronos, we do not run it SAAS, we host our own servers. And we had just patched them for this vulnerability last week.

 

[Gameface]

I'm pretty sure my wife's employer, a pretty large national retail chain, uses Kronos. Hopefully this doesn't impact timely paycheck issuing.

 

[LogGrad98]

I'm pretty sure my wife's employer, a pretty large national retail chain, uses Kronos. Hopefully this doesn't impact timely paycheck issuing.

That's the challenge right now. We are using other systems to validate employee time. It's a major pain in the ***.

 

[Scat]

Kronos is doomed as Praxis has exploded due to over mining.

 

[gandalfe]

That's the challenge right now. We are using other systems to validate employee time. It's a major pain in the ***.

My company uses Kronos, but not in the SAAS sense, we actually have our own servers, so we're not affected.

 

[LogGrad98]

My company uses Kronos, but not in the SAAS sense, we actually have our own servers, so we're not affected.

Yeah from what I understand this is like close to a 60/40 split, with 60% affected.

 

[leftyjace]

The University of Utah uses Kronos and is effected… is that where you work, Log?

 

[LogGrad98]

The University of Utah uses Kronos and is effected… is that where you work, Log?

No I am in California, I work for a third-party logistics provider.

 

[gandalfe]

The University of Utah uses Kronos and is effected… is that where you work, Log?

From what I heard, just because of payroll timing, they have to go around to each and every timeclock on campus and manually collect all the punch in/out data. That sounds horrendous.

 

[LogGrad98]

From what I heard, just because of payroll timing, they have to go around to each and every timeclock on campus and manually collect all the punch in/out data. That sounds horrendous.

Yeah we are reduced to capturing hours on paper, like a bunch of barbarians.

 

[gandalfe]

Yeah we are reduced to capturing hours on paper, like a bunch of barbarians.

Maybe you should make a spreadsheet. All the cool companies are doing it.