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Kronos, the cloud-based HR management service provider, suffered a data incident involving ransomware affecting its information systems. This certainly is a significant issue for Kronos and, based on communications from Kronos, the company is in the process of remediating the incident and alerting its impacted customers. However, because of the nature and extent of the services Kronos provides to its customers (i.e., employers), there are several issues that HR, IT, and other groups inside organizations that are customers of the affected services need to be doing.

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