On 16th October 2026, Bullhorn switched off their services due to a cyber incident.
The Bullhorn main CRM, other Bullhorn tools and their API all shut down until the 19th October when services gradually began to come back online.
Who and what caused the Bullhorn Cyber Incident?
Bullhorn have released several customer and press updates since the issue, but have not been specific with details.
The cyber incident has been contained. CrowdStrike has detected no evidence of further unauthorized activity since October 17
Art Papas, Bullhorn CEO
This quote suggests that there was an unauthorized access, but what exactly we do not know.
Are our Bullhorn services back up?
Yes, once the API access was restored, our services automaticlaly picked up exactly where they left off. We use the API for many different Bullhorn services, which does mean that we rely on the API being available.
Some API users have found that their API user passwords have bee changed by Bullhorn, a simple password reset has seen their services restored.
Are Bullhorn services all back up?
As far as we know, yes. All services we use ourselves are all back up and running.
What if it happens again?
Bullhorn is a SaaS product, that is, a hosted piece of software. When the software goes down, you lose all acccess to your data.
Backup, backup, backup
Our customers of our backup tools sat pretty whilst Bullhorn was down. Our Bullhorn data backup tool maintained a back up of their data on a separate server. They could continue to work during the outage and once access was restored, the backup tool sent the new data back into Bullhorn to ensure they didn’t miss a beat.
Contact us to find out more about our Bullhorn backup service.