![]() Ransomware and other cyber attacks on private-sector corporations are increasingly common. National Security Biden Pledges Tough Response To Cyberthreats. The outage is an unneeded administrative nightmare timed precisely as the omicron surge is hitting hospitals, Riggi said. One of the Kronos products knocked offline was designed specifically for health care providers to help them manage the complex employee schedules at 24-hour facilities. "A significant number" of the nation's hospital systems and health care employers have been affected by the Kronos outage, said John Riggi, the American Hospital Association's senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk. Health care employers have been hit particularly hardįor health care employers, the timing could not be worse. Federal labor law requires those employers to retroactively correct paychecks when they are able. That has resulted in paycheck shortages for some employees, especially those who worked overtime or on holidays. Others, like the city of Cleveland, have chosen to estimate their workers' hours for now, whether by issuing paychecks based on an employee's scheduled hours, or duplicating paychecks from previous pay periods. In Cleveland, Ohio, about 8,000 city employees - including the police and fire departments - are affected by the Kronos outage. In Santa Fe, N.M., most of the city's 1,500-plus employees are filling out spreadsheets every two weeks to track their hours, rather than use the cloud-based software timecards that are customized to the needs of each city department. Public employers, such as Prince George's County, Md., and the University of Utah, succumbed too.Ībout 8 million total employees are affected by the outage. Thousands of employers rely on Kronos products that were knocked offline, including some of the nation's largest private employers such as FedEx, PepsiCo and Whole Foods. The hack is disrupting major public and private employers MTA has "taken the first steps toward initiating legal action," said Eugene Resnick, an MTA spokesperson. That includes the New York City area's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. ![]() Now that the disruption has proven to be major, some employers are considering lawsuits or other legal challenges to their contracts with UKG. Technology Kronos hack will likely affect how employers issue paychecks and track hours In the most severe cases, that backlog could delay issuing W-2s and other tax information. The additional burden won't end once Kronos is back: Finance and human resources departments around the country face weeks of additional work bringing the manual records they have collected over a month or more back into the Kronos system. Though Ultimate Kronos Group, the company that makes Kronos, says that it expects systems will be back online by the end of January, affected employers say they don't yet know for sure when they will actually be able to access their systems and information. In the weeks since the attack knocked out Kronos Private Cloud - a service that includes some of the nation's most popular workforce management software - employees from Montana to Florida have reported paychecks short by hundreds or thousands of dollars, as their employers have struggled to manage schedules and track hours without the help of the Kronos software. SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via GettĪ month-old ransomware attack is still causing administrative chaos for millions of people, including 20,000 public transit workers in the New York City metro area, public service workers in Cleveland, employees of FedEx and Whole Foods, and medical workers across the country who were already dealing with an omicron surge that has filled hospitals and exacerbated worker shortages. MS Office 365 (Office, Outlook & Teams, etc.Employers are still dealing with administrative chaos caused by ransomware attack on Ultimate Kronos Group last month.Remote Access - Connect to Trinitiy Portal (Mac).Remote Access - Connect to Trinitiy Portal (Windows).Remote Access - Setup Access to Trinitiy Portal (Mac).Remote Access - Setup Access to Trinitiy Portal (Windows).Remote Access - Password Reset Self Service.Remote Access - Incoming Phone Calls (Please change the outgoing message on your office phone to, " Please try to reach me on my Mobile Phone at #-#-#."). ![]()
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