EU Payroll & HR Services Giant Under Attack

HR and payroll giant SD Worx has suffered a cyber attack prompting it to shut down all IT systems for its UK and Ireland services. The management company is based in Belgium and says that it delivers services 5.2 million employees for over 82,000 companies. 

While the login portals for other European countries are working correctly, the company's UK customer portal is not presently accessible.

SD Worx has told its customers that "Our security team discovered malicious activities in our hosted data centre last night. We have taken immediate action and have preventively isolated all systems and servers to mitigate any further impact... As a result, there is currently no access to our systems, which we deeply regret of course," reads a security advisory to SD Worx UK and Ireland customers.SD Worx emphasises that it applies extremely stringent organisational and technical security measures to secure the privacy and data of its customers at all times."

While there is no further information as to what type of cyber attack the company suffered, there is concern that sensitive data was stolen during the attack, according to reports

As a full-service human resources and payroll company, SD Worx manages a large amount of sensitive data for its client's employees. According to the company's General Conditions, this data may include tax information, government ID numbers, addresses, full names, birth dates, phone numbers, bank account numbers, employee evaluations, and more.

Other past attacks against payroll and HR management companies have led to lawsuits for inadequately protecting employee and customer data.

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