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Kevin Beaumont

A SaaS supplier called Conduent appears to have gone missing in action.

There's lots of social media posts saying they've been having a system outage for over a week. Conduent are telling media it's a "service interruption". They were hit with ransomware in 2020 on their Citrix environment.

Conduent haven't filed anything with SEC for a cyber incident, which is a legal requirement.

"service interruption" is the exact same terminology Conduent used in 2020 - they ended up being outed by the ransomware group.

Wisconsin are reporting Conduent have 'fixed' their system.

Conduent have now issued a carefully worded statement saying they "experienced an operational disruption due to a third-party compromise” of one of their "operating systems".

Missing are the words 'cyber' and 'ransomware'.

They won't comment on if it's ransomware. More on that soon.

therecord.media/government-con

therecord.mediaGovernment IT contractor Conduent says 'third-party compromise’ caused outagesThe outages have affected critical social services like food assistance programs in four states, including Wisconsin, over the last week.

@GossiTheDog the phrase "no outages related to security at Conduent" seems specifically and very carefully constructed.