Conduent outage caused by cyberattack, TechCrunch reports

An ongoing “service interruption” at Conduent (CNDT), a major government contractor, has resulted in outages across a number of U.S. states, with a person familiar with the incident telling TechCrunch that the outage was caused by a cyberattack. “We are currently experiencing a service interruption affecting some applications while we have restored service over the past few days. The Conduent technology team is working hard to resolve any remaining issues,” said a Conduent spokesperson, who declined to answer questions or rule out a cyber incident, according to TechCrunch.