Ion wasn’t deemed a ‘critical’ vendor by most clients

Software firm escaped heavy scrutiny ahead of cyber attack, says US Treasury official

Cyber crime

Ion Group, which suffered a ransomware attack on January 31 that disabled some of its services and initially raised systemic fears, was not classified as a critical third-party vendor by many of its clients, according to a US Treasury official.

“Many firms that were onboarded [by] Ion didn’t use the highest level of scrutiny that they use for their most critical third-party vendors,” said Todd Conklin, deputy assistant secretary in the US Treasury department’s Office of Cybersecurity and

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