HR giant Workday discloses data breach amid Salesforce attacks

Human resources giant Workday has disclosed a data breach after attackers gained access to a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform in a recent social engineering attack.

Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, Workday has over 19,300 employees in offices across North America, EMEA, and APJ. Workday’s customer list comprises over 11,000 organizations across a diverse range of industries, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500 companies.

As the company revealed in a blog, the attackers gained access to some of the information stored on the compromised CRM systems, adding that no customer tenants were impacted.

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