Workday, a leading provider of human resources technology, has confirmed a data breach involving its customer relationship database, allowing hackers to access personal contact information such as names, emails, and phone numbers. The stolen data may be used for social engineering attacks, raising concerns about broader security implications.

The breach, discovered this month, follows a series of similar attacks on Salesforce-hosted databases affecting major companies like Google, Cisco, Qantas, and Pandora. These breaches have been linked to the hacker group ShinyHunters, known for using voice phishing tactics to gain access to cloud-based systems, and potentially setting up extortion sites to monetize the stolen data. Workday has not disclosed the exact scope of the breach or whether they can even trace exfiltrated data, or identity of the breached vendor. Notably, its breach disclosure page was hidden from search engine indexing, raising transparency concerns.

This breach underscores the critical need for deep, continuous network visibility to maintain situational awareness in modern enterprise environments. Without real-time insight into packets, flows, logs, SNMP, and other telemetry, organizations cannot effectively detect or trace the who, what, where, when, and how of a breach. Effective observability isn't just about collecting data - it’s about correlating activity across the stack to spot anomalies, isolate threats, and trigger automated responses. In today’s threat landscape, relying on delayed or incomplete visibility can result in data exfiltration going unnoticed, escalating risk, and leading to substantial public relations damage, regulatory scrutiny, and costly litigation or settlements. Proactive monitoring with intelligent automation using platform's like NIKSUN's is no longer optional - it’s essential to stop breaches before they become headlines. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page