ISMG Editors: Lawsuits Follow Year's Top Health Data Breach

Conduent Gets Sued; US Government's Cyber Shutdown Woes; Hacktivist Hits Rise Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • November 7, 2025

In this week's panel, four ISMG editors discussed the ongoing fallout for hacked business process outsourcing firm Conduent, the federal response to the breach of vendor F5 being complicated by the longest U.S. government shutdown in history and the increased targeting of critical infrastructure, including by self-proclaimed hacktivists.

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The panelists - Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, executive editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity; Tony Morbin, executive news editor, EU; Chris Riotta, managing editor, GovInfoSecurity; and Mathew Schwartz, executive editor, DataBreachToday and Europe - discussed:

• Post-hack attack lawsuits and investigations piling up for New Jersey-based business process outsourcing firm Conduent since it suffered the largest known health data breach - so far - of 2025;
• How the ongoing shutdown of the U.S. government continues to complicate federal agencies ...