LexisNexis temporarily took its Nexis Diligence, Nexis Metabase API, and Nexis Newsdesk services offline after detecting unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor. The company disconnected from the affected systems to contain the incident and is investigating with an external cybersecurity forensics firm. LexisNexis is rebuilding the affected services in a new environment before restoring them. The company has not confirmed the exact nature of the activity, whether data was accessed or stolen, or whether the incident was caused by a specific threat actor. The affected services support due diligence, risk research, news and media data integration, and media monitoring for organizations such as corporations, law firms, financial institutions, government agencies, and compliance teams. LexisNexis clarified that its Nexis Metabase API is unrelated to the recently reported Metabase Cloud attacks involving a critical SQL injection vulnerability. Therefore, there is currently no indication that the Metabase Cloud vulnerability caused the LexisNexis service disruption. The incident follows previous security events involving LexisNexis, including a 2025 breach affecting approximately 364,000 individuals after attackers accessed private GitHub repositories and a 2026 intrusion involving AWS infrastructure that resulted in limited server access and the theft of legacy files. The current investigation remains ongoing, and LexisNexis has not disclosed whether customer information was compromised.
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