GoKawiilLexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor.
The company said it is investigating the incident with assistance from a cybersecurity forensic firm and is rebuilding affected systems in a new environment before bringing the services back online.
“Earlier this week, we identified unusual activity on servers that are hosted and managed by a third-party vendor,” reads the notification sent to customers last week.
“To protect our customers and contain the issue at its source, we made the immediate decision to disconnect from those third-party systems.”
Service outage alert
Source: BleepingComputer
LexisNexis is a global data analytics company providing legal, business, regulatory, and risk information research, public records, and risk management services. Its services are widely used by corporations, law firms, financial institutions, government agencies, consultants, and researchers.
Nexis Diligence is a due diligence and risk research platform used by compliance professionals, while Nexis Metabase API provides news and media data feeds for integration into enterprise systems.
The Nexis Newsdesk media monitoring and analytics service is used primarily by communications, public relations, and marketing teams.
Todd Larsen, the president of the global Nexis Solutions division of LexisNexis, confirmed to BleepingComputer that the services were taken down due to suspicious activity on vendor servers.
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