Posted on 12/15/2021 12:05:26 PM PST by DFG
Kronos, a human resources giant, says it suffered a ransomware attack that may keep its systems offline for weeks and will likely impact how its customers issue paychecks and track hours worked. Many large employers are scrambling to set up temporary systems to keep workers paid, including writing paper checks for potentially thousands of employees.
The companies affected by the Kronos ransomware hack are now working on finding backup plans to ensure their employees get paid, which includes issuing paper checks, according to a report by NPR.
Many of Kronos’ customers include municipal governments, university systems and large corporations. Dozens of companies and government organizations announced this week that they have been affected by the ransomware attack.
“We took immediate action to investigate and mitigate the issue, have alerted our affected customers and informed the authorities, and are working with leading cybersecurity experts,” a Kronos spokesperson told NPR.
“We recognize the seriousness of the issue and have mobilized all available resources to support our customers and are working diligently to restore the affected services,” the spokesperson added.
The spokesperson added that the hack has only affected customers that used a particular product called the Kronos Private Cloud.
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We use Kronos, but on site implementation - NOT cloud.
AWS had a major malfunction back on the 7th, and hasn’t been ‘right’ since; having another major outage today.
The joys of the holidays, when more workers take time off, and more hackers get to work.
Ouch. Very disturbing news. Municipal and university clients among others.
I can setup a payday loan to you and because you are a fellow freeper, the rate should be under 200% per week...lol
AWS had a major malfunction today.
We are looking at Kronos.
Well played.
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We have switched to clipboards where you write down your name, time in, time out and how long you took a lunch for. No Idear how that will get processed into checks yet.
Has anyone heard a peep from the White House about this? So close to Christmas you would think they want to make some statement saying they’re working with Kronos to try to investigate the people responsible for this, etc.
Haven’t heard a peep out of them as millions of people may not get paid on time, etc.
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Keep it ;in house’ and off the cloud ... it’s less of a hassle in the long run
AWS had a major malfunction back on the 7th, and hasn’t been ‘right’ since; having another major outage today.
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And AWS has not exactly been transparent about what the original problem was last week that knocked out us-east-1.
A lot of bigger corps do not want that. To much room for fraud.
Same with my wife’s employer. She an area manager and had to recreate her employees time for last week’s payroll. They are trying to run payroll using Excel.
Paper checks are likely still used for reimbursing expenses. Estimate employee time in and out for missing payroll days. Reconcile when system is restored.
UGH. That is going to be clunky as all get out. I wonder how many companies are going to find themselves on the wrong side of state laws that require employees to be paid in full by payday. I remember my employer explaining that direct deposit was a wonder for them after 9/11 as those employees with direct deposit required no special actions as if their pay-stub was a few day late no legal problems but they had to hire special express ground shipments for those who received paper checks.
Paycheck due tomorrow no idea if we’re getting paid or not. Not one word from company( huge corporation which will remain nameless)
We actually do keep the old style time clocks pictured operational, usually only for new hires where it may take 24 to 48 hours for the Kronos system to process, so they only keep about a dozen manual paper cards around. They tried ordering more, but so did everyone else and they have like a 6 to 8 week lead time to get enough.
My employer is having employees sign in and out with the time they reported to work, took a lunch, left for the day, etc. On a clipboard. At the end of the day one of the site managers must take all that information put it into an Excel spreadsheet that includes the employee name total number of hours worked in the department they are assigned to an email that to the corporate HR office. The HR people that have to search the payroll database for that person in that department to figure out their hourly rate.
Then, they must put the employee ID number, hourly rate and I was worked in a separate Excel spreadsheet and send that off to someone else who will somehow find a way to issue checks. Now, they will be doing this for easily tens of thousands of employees. I see no way that there’s actually possible in the short time they have.
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