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Wednesday, October 14, 2026
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Payroll hack

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A federal judge granted class certification to a nationwide class of Tyson Foods employees in a suit against the poultry giant arising from a hacking incident that took control of its contracted payroll system for more than a month. All 17,000 non-exempt employees at Tyson were similarly affected by the payroll system outage.

Read the ruling here.

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