UKG Security Incident

An article from UKG to settle class action lawsuit with workers affected by Kronos outage The filings come more than a year after the ransomware attack against UKGs Kronos Private Cloud product. Published April 14, 2023 Ryan Golden Senior Reporter post share post print email license A UKG office in Weston, Florida, on Jan. 6, 2023. Photo: Obtained by Industry Dive Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback . Legal filings this week from payroll provider UKG suggest the company is in the process of settling at least a portion of the lawsuits filed by workers who were affected by the companys 2021 ransomware attack and subsequent outage . In a filing Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, attorneys for UKG and subsidiary Kronos notified parties to a class-action suit brought by employees at UMass Memorial Medical Center, Pallotta v. University of Massachusetts Memorial Center, et. al. , that UKG had agreed to settle a separate California case also involving claims based on the outage. UKG said it executed a settlement agreement and release Wednesday in the California case, In re UKG Inc. Cybersecurity Litigation , which sits before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. On March 23, the federal judge in the California case set an April 28, 2023, deadline for parties to submit a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement agreement in that case. The claims made by employees in In re UKG overlap with many of the claims made in [ Pallotta ], UKG said in the Thursday filing. The company added that it would submit a copy of the agreement to the Pallotta court once parties to the California case filed the motion for preliminary approval. According to the complaint in Pallotta , UMass Memorial instituted a payment freeze for all hourly employees in the days following an outage to Kronos Private Cloud, a UKG product that the health system used to conduct...

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