Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-02-23 00:00:00
Affected organization: Apex Human Capital Management
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service,Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Payroll software provider Apex Human Capital Management suffers a ransomware attack that severs payroll management services for hundreds of the company's customers for nearly three days. The company decides to pay the ransom.