European payroll and HR management company SD Worx has been hit by a cyber attack in the UK. This forced it to shut down the IT infrastructure for payroll and HR services in the region.
The company notified its customers on Monday that its UK and Ireland divisions had been targeted by cyber attacks. “Our security team had last night wicked activity found in our hosted data centres,” the company said in an advisory to its UK and Ireland customers.
SD Worx indicated that they had taken immediate action by proactively isolating their systems and servers to prevent additional damage. As a result, the customer portal for SD Worx in the UK is currently unavailable, although the login portal for other European countries is functioning normally.
‘No Ransomware’
SD Worx was originally a Belgian company, but increasingly operates as a European group. Partly as a result of acquisitions, it is active in 26 countries, mainly in Europe. It employs more than 7,000 people and calculates the wages of around 5.2 million workers in 82,000 companies. This makes him, in his own words, one of the world’s top five.
As an HR consultant, SD Worx processes personal data such as name, address, date of birth, telephone number, bank account number and employee evaluations. But in a statement to the trade publication Computer Sleep the company maintains that the attack was not ransomware and there is currently no evidence that data has been compromised.
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