UMass Memorial Faces Employee Wage Suit From Kronos Hack

March 9, 2022, 9:01 PM UTC

University of Massachusetts employees claim that they failed to receive wages owed to them after the school’s timekeeping and payroll system was hacked in December 2021, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Massachusetts.

Danielle Pallotta and Cheryl Laflamme brought the proposed class action against UMass Memorial, one of the largest health-care systems in Massachusetts, alleging that its failure to secure Kronos, a workforce management software, caused their personal information to be compromised.

Pallotta and Laflamme claim that the data breach jeopardized the names, addresses, employee IDs, and social security numbers of over 8 million employees.

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