The cyber attack on the SEPE computer network in the first week of March has left staff working overtime to process all payments for unemployment and ERTE on time. Although the system is back up to being almost 100% operational, they have closed payments for April and almost 150,000 will be late due to the workload.
SEPE have said that the delay will be in around a dozen Spanish provinces, although Madrid, Barcelona, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria stand out because they are the ones with delays for the most people.
The main cause of the problem is in the accumulated volume of work generated by the attack on the SEPE mainframe in the early hours of Tuesday March 9th. After this, the employment offices in Spain could not process a single file for four days, and since then, the systems are gradually recovering.
