HR company Workday reports hackers accessed some of its data

Human Resources platform Workday says it was targeted by a social engineering hack in which attackers extracted contact info and other information about clients.

Workday says bad actors contacted employees while pretending to be members of their organization's HR or IT group.

Compromised materials included contact information like names, phone numbers and email addresses. Workday says the information was extracted from a third-party platform it uses, but says "There is no indication of access to customer tenants or the data within them."

Workday says the stolen information could be useful if the attackers make further social engineering efforts against other targets.

The company has put new security measures in place following the incident and reminds customers that the only way it wil