Breach Record

UKG

DISCLOSED 2024-01-11 · MISCONFIG · 45,000 RECORDS EXPOSED

US payroll giant UKG reported that personal data of 45,000 employees of a client was inadvertently shared with five other companies. The incident appears to stem from a misconfiguration or process failure rather than a cyberattack. No details on the types of data exposed or the exact cause were provided.

The record

What we know

Disclosed

2024-01-11

Attack vector

Misconfig

Sector

payroll

Country

Records exposed

45,000

ColdRecon assessment

Could a positive-security control have prevented this?

Verdict · unclear · opinion

The article describes a data sharing incident, not a technical breach; a positive-security model might not directly apply to data handling processes.

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Sources

Cited reporting

↗ www.teiss.co.uk (2024-01-11)

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