‘Their Goal Is to Trick Employees’: One of the Largest Job Application Software Companies in the U.S. Was Hacked, Exposing Personal Data

In a blog post on Friday, Workday, a popular platform used for hiring and job applications, revealed it was the target of a breach that exposed personal information to hackers. The company said it was one of “many large organizations” targeted as part of a “social engineering campaign.”

The company said “threat actors” accessed information “from a third-party CRM platform” that includes “commonly available business contact information, like names, email addresses, and phone numbers, potentially to further their social engineering scams.”

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