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Conduent confirms outage was due to a cybersecurity incident


U.S. government contractor Conduent, which provides technology to support services such as child support and food assistance, has confirmed that a recent

Conduent confirmed the disruption, which left some U.S. residents without access to support payments, to TechCrunch on Tuesday but declined to say whether the outage was related to a compromise of its systems. In an updated statement sent to TechCrunch on Wednesday, Conduent spokesperson Sean Collins confirmed that the disruption was due to a “due to a cybersecurity incident”, the nature of which was not confirmed. Collins declined to share any further details about the incident, including whether the company was aware of any data exfiltration.

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