U.S. authorities contractor Conduent, which offers know-how to assist companies resembling little one assist and meals help, has confirmed {that a} latest outage was attributable to a cybersecurity incident.
Conduent confirmed the disruption, which left some U.S. residents with out entry to assist funds, to TechCrunch on Tuesday however declined to say whether or not the outage was associated to a compromise of its programs.
In an up to date assertion despatched to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Conduent spokesperson Sean Collins confirmed that the disruption was as a result of a “due to a cybersecurity incident”, the character of which was not confirmed.
“This incident was contained and all systems have been restored,” Collins stated. “Maintaining system integrity and functionality is as important to us as it is to our clients.”
Collins declined to share any additional particulars in regards to the incident, together with whether or not the corporate was conscious of any knowledge exfiltration.
