Starbucks payroll and scheduling disrupted by ransomware attack on supplier
A ransomware attack on an external software supplier used by Starbucks disrupted employee payroll and rota management. Starbucks recorded employees' working hours on paper and processed payroll manually. Sainsbury's also suffered operational disruption from the same attack.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Starbucks
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Disruption to employee payroll processing and rota management
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack on an external software supplier
- Location
- United States
Timeline
- Following the ransomware attack on its software supplier, Starbucks handled time recording and payroll manually.
- Disruption to Starbucks' rotas and payroll processing continued.
- It emerged that Sainsbury's had also suffered operational disruption from the same ransomware attack.
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