HR software maker Workday confirms breach; hackers may have stolen personal data, company says: ‘We recently identified…’

Workday, a major provider of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach that resulted in the theft of personal information from one of its third-party databases. In a blog post, the company announced that hackers stole an unspecified amount of data, primarily consisting of contact information such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers. The breach was part of a “social engineering campaign” that targeted several large organisations. Workday explained that in this campaign, threat actors contacted employees via text or phone, posing as HR or IT staff, to trick them into giving up account access or personal information.

What Workday said about the data breach