A class action lawsuit was filed on Wednesday in the District of Massachusetts by plaintiff Elizabeth Taylor on behalf of a putative class against defendants UKG, Inc. and her former employer Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Plymouth, Inc. (Beth Israel). The defendants allegedly
On December 11, 2021, defendant UKG experienced a ransomware attack, according to the complaint. The attack resulted in the plaintiff’s personally identifiable information, as well as UKG’s Kronos Private Cloud, being rendered unusable.
The UKG Kronos Private Cloud is used by employers like defendant Beth Israel to manage their work schedules, track employee hours, and calculate employee paychecks, the complaint explains. Employee’s personal identifying information is also in the cloud, including their social security numbers, addresses, and more. With this information, the complaint explains that the plaintiff and class may be victims to “all manner of fraud.”
The UKG data breach resulted in defendant Beth Israel being unable to conduct its payroll services as usual. This meant that from the date of the breach onward, the plaintiff and class members were allegedly not paid for the full amount of time they worked.
The plaintiff said they were an hourly employee of the defendants’, providing care to the patients at Beth Israel as a registered nurse. On December 13, 2021, Beth Israel allegedly began a payment freeze for their hourly employees, meaning that “the pay for each pay period following that...
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