The US company was affected by a social engineering campaign that bears similarities to a recent wave of attacks by extortion group ShinyHunters.
Enterprise software company Workday recently suffered a data breach after threat actors targeted a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform. According to a blogpost by the US company on Friday (15 August), threat actors gained access to information stored on the CRM platform through a social engineering campaign that targeted multiple large organisations.
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