Human resources software giant Workday has disclosed a data breach following a social engineering attack that compromised a third-party customer relationship management (CRM) platform.

In a blog post on Friday, the California-based firm said attackers accessed some information stored on its CRM systems after targeting employees in a campaign that has also ensnared multiple global organisations.

However, Workday stressed that no customer tenants or their data were affected.

"We want to let you know about a recent social engineering campaign targeting many large organisations, including Workday," the company said.

"We recently identified that Workday had been targeted and threat actors were able to access some information from our third-party CRM platform. There is no indication of access to customer tenants or the data within them.

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