SD Worx shuts down UK and Ireland services after cyberattack

Belgian HR giant SD Worx was forced to shut down its IT infrastructure for its UK and Ireland services after a cyber attack.

HR and payroll management firm SD Worx shut down its IT systems for its UK and Ireland services after a cyber attack. The company employs more than 7,000 HR professionals and serves over 5.2 million employees every month. The company claims a client base of over 82,000.

The UK and Ireland branch disclosed a security breach and began notifying its customers.

“Our security team has discovered malicious activities in our hosted data centre last night. We have taken immediate action and have preventively isolated all systems and servers to mitigate any further impact. As a result, there is currently no access to our systems, which we deeply regret of course,” reads the security breach notification sent by the company to UK and Ireland customers, as reported by BleepingComputer.

“SD Worx emphasises that it applies extremely stringent organisational and technical security measures to secure the privacy and data of its customers at all times. It goes without saying that we are handling this with the highest priority and that we are working very hard on a solution to give you access to our systems again. We will keep you informed about the further status.”

The company did not reveal the type of attack it has suffered and did not reveal if it has suffered a data breach.

At the time of this writing, the company’s portal for UK and Ireland is reachable again.

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.