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Giant payroll cyberattack interrupts contractor payment and timesheet services

On September 22, 2021, a cyberattack on Giant Group took payroll and contractor portals, phone and email services offline. Giant Pay used emergency payment methods for more than 8,000 contractors, but acknowledged some did not receive their expected amounts, while clients worked around disruptions to outsourced payroll and timesheet processing.

79

Estimated severity

79 / 100

94

Source reliability

94 / 100

Approximate Date

2021-09-22

Targeted Company

GIANT

Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact

  1. Distribution & Fulfillment

  2. Procurement & Sourcing

  3. Production & Manufacturing

  4. Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)

  5. Warehousing

  6. Service Delivery

  7. Unrecognized Impact

Supply Chain Relations

PAGEGROUP (Business process outsourcer)

Geographic Impact

Country Targeted Company

United Kingdom

GBR

Other Affected Countries

No other affected countries reported

Target country

United Kingdom

Affected countries

United Kingdom

Impacted regions

No information

Operational Impact

Duration

No information

Financial impact (USD M)

No information

Impact types

Downstream customer disruptionService degradationService unavailability

Affected sectors

Finance & InsuranceProfessional & Business Services

Affected departments

AccountingCustomer ServiceFinanceInformation Technology

Attack Profile

Attack types

No information

Attributed threat actors

No information

Sources

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