Ransomware gang SafePay has today claimed responsibility for a January 2025 cyber-attack against IT giant Conduent. The outage disrupted electronic money transfers and EBT payments made by its clients, which include half of Fortune 100 companies, for two days.
Paul Bischoff, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Comparitech had this comment:
“Ransomware attacks can lock down computer systems and steal confidential data. If the targeted company doesn’t pay a ransom, then it faces extended downtime, data loss, an putting customers at increased risk of fraud.”
“SafePay’s attack on Conduent is the first confirmed ransomware attack on a US tech firm in 2025, though Comparitech researchers have logged 36 unconfirmed claims so far this year.”
“In 2024, we tracked 12 confirmed ransomware attacks on US tech companies, which was a significant decline from 2023’s 44 confirmed attacks. We counted 104.4 million records compromised in 2023, compared to just 1.9 million in 2024.”
“One of the biggest such attacks in 2024 was against ITSG, which notified 900,000 people of an October data breach claimed by ransomware gang BianLian.”
Additionally, Comparitech researchers reached out to Conduent and received a statement in response, which can be found at this link: https://www.comparitech.com/news/another-ransomware-gang-says-it-breached-it-giant-conduent/
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SafePay Claims To Have Pwned Conduent
Ransomware gang SafePay has today claimed responsibility for a January 2025 cyber-attack against IT giant Conduent. The outage disrupted electronic money transfers and EBT payments made by its clients, which include half of Fortune 100 companies, for two days.
Paul Bischoff, Consumer Privacy Advocate at Comparitech had this comment:
“Ransomware attacks can lock down computer systems and steal confidential data. If the targeted company doesn’t pay a ransom, then it faces extended downtime, data loss, an putting customers at increased risk of fraud.”
“SafePay’s attack on Conduent is the first confirmed ransomware attack on a US tech firm in 2025, though Comparitech researchers have logged 36 unconfirmed claims so far this year.”
“In 2024, we tracked 12 confirmed ransomware attacks on US tech companies, which was a significant decline from 2023’s 44 confirmed attacks. We counted 104.4 million records compromised in 2023, compared to just 1.9 million in 2024.”
“One of the biggest such attacks in 2024 was against ITSG, which notified 900,000 people of an October data breach claimed by ransomware gang BianLian.”
Additionally, Comparitech researchers reached out to Conduent and received a statement in response, which can be found at this link: https://www.comparitech.com/news/another-ransomware-gang-says-it-breached-it-giant-conduent/
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