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(CNN) — A ransomware attack has disrupted a third-party software system that Starbucks uses to track and manage its baristas’ schedules, forcing the coffee chain to shift to manual mode to ensure its employees get paid properly, a Starbucks spokesperson said Monday.

Starbucks’ store leadership have advised their employees on how to work around the outage manually, and the company will make sure everyone gets paid for all hours worked, according to Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson.

Starbucks joins a growing list of companies disrupted by the hack of Blue Yonder, an Arizona-based cloud services provider that serves grocery stores and Fortune 500 firms. Two of the top four grocery chains in the United Kingdom told CNN over the weekend that they were taking steps to deal with the Blue Yonder outage.

The Wall Street Journal first reported that Starbucks was impacted by the Blue Yonder hack.

Automaker Ford said Monday that it was investigating any …

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