Workday outage disrupting payroll, time-off, and benefits access at Walmart, Target, and other firms

[william]

Workday says a problem surfaced while TESTING ITS BACKUP SYSTEMS, leaving some data scrambled.This is RIGHT after Microsoft's massive outage, and the FAA outages happening todayJust an insane chain of events where things seem to just be breaking

https://twitter.com/x/status/2121409319518322734

• The post reports a Workday outage disrupting payroll, time-off, and benefits access at Walmart, Target, and other firms after a backup systems test scrambled data, occurring hours after a Microsoft 365 outage and FAA nationwide ground stop.
• Workday confirmed the issue stemmed from inconsistent data during testing and placed systems in maintenance mode; FAA attributed its ground stop to overloaded communications routers with no evidence of cyberattack or Microsoft involvement per DHS and company statements.
• The attached Fox News video clip features Peter Doocy covering an imminent White House briefing on the FAA airport groundings, visually tying retail and aviation disruptions to amplify the narrative of sequential system failures. Grok

HUGE OUTAGES are now impacting WALMART, TARGET and other corporate systems used for pay info, time off, and benefits - Bing

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[StormyCat]

This just seems fishy. Too many odd things happening with tech in a row.

 

[Irag8er]

Software company with thousands of Fortune 500 clients joins Microsoft in experiencing major outage​

Walmart, Target, Netflix and government agencies among 11,500 clients affected by the Workday service disruption​

The company told the San Francisco Chronicle that the disruption occurred after it discovered a problem while testing backup systems.

Software company with thousands of Fortune 500 clients joins Microsoft in experiencing major outage

Workday's major outage left 11,500 companies unable to access payroll and HR software, affecting Walmart, Target, Netflix and government agencies.

www.foxbusiness.com