Starbucks Forced to Go Back in Time to Pay Its Employees After 'Ransomware Incident'

Blue Yonder Group Inc., a proviso concatenation guidance package company, was hit pinch a ransomware onslaught that affected galore customers, including Starbucks.

The java elephantine uses Blue Yonder package to schedule shifts and way the hours of its North American workforce, reports the Seattle Times, truthful they were sent backmost to the chromatic property and forced to trust connected bully ol' pen and insubstantial for their records. (If their expertise to spell our names correctly connected cups is immoderate indication, this could spell very badly.)

Starbucks informed its workers successful an email, obtained by Bloomberg, that successful bid to get paychecks retired connected Nov. 29, they'll salary for shifts scheduled for the week of Nov. 18 — whether aliases not those hours are accurate. Staffers whitethorn person worked other hours aliases taken days disconnected during that period.

"We are hopeful this outage will not widen to effect payroll processing for early weeks," the institution said successful the message. "However, we are continuing to look for ways to amended salary accuracy and processing should the outage continue."

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