{"id":6014,"date":"2021-12-13T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T09:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2022-02-02T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T10:00:53","slug":"ransomware-attack-against-ultimate-kronos-group-might-result-in-weeks-of-downtime-for-hr-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/ransomware-attack-against-ultimate-kronos-group-might-result-in-weeks-of-downtime-for-hr-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware attack against Ultimate Kronos Group might result in weeks of downtime for HR solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6014\" class=\"elementor elementor-6014\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6d00db1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6d00db1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c624bba\" data-id=\"c624bba\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71a919b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71a919b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On\u00a0Monday 13<sup>th<\/sup> of December\u00a02021, Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), one of the most popular and widely used payroll and workforce tracking systems for public finance entities disclosed that they suffered a ransomware attack on Saturday 11<sup>th<\/sup> of December 2021, that resulted in the Kronos Private Cloud being taken down and it may take several weeks before system will be available to clients again. UKG solutions that don\u2019t use the Kronos Private Cloud are unaffected.<\/p><p>\u201cWe took immediate action to investigate and mitigate the issue, and have determined that this is a ransomware incident affecting the Kronos Private Cloud\u2014the portion of our business where UKG Workforce Central, UKG\u202fTeleStaff, Healthcare Extensions, and Banking Scheduling Solutions are deployed.\u201d- Ultimate Kronos Group<\/p><p>Ultimate Kronos Group\u2019s Executive VP Bob Hughes have claimed that they are investigating the incident with leading cyber security experts to assess and resolve the situation and have notified the authorities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On&nbsp;Monday 13th of December&nbsp;2021, Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG), one of the most popular and widely used payroll and workforce tracking systems for public finance entities disclosed that they suffered a ransomware attack on Saturday 11th of December 2021, that resulted in the Kronos Private Cloud being taken down and it may take several weeks before system will be available to<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,2,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-latest_vulnerabilities","category-ce_news","category-industry_sector","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Picture1-11.jpg?fit=1378%2C918&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6022,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions\/6022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}