Conduent confirms cybersecurity incident behind recent outage

Conduent confirmed a recent operational outage was caused by a "cyber security incident," which disrupted services for multiple U.S. state agencies (including Wisconsin and Oklahoma) and affected electronic payments and EBT processing; the company says the incident was contained and systems restored but has not provided details on data theft, ransom demands, or the scope of affected customers, and has not filed a public SEC disclosure. The report notes Conduent's large customer base and references a prior Maze ransomware incident four years ago, raising concern but providing limited technical details about the current attack.