LexisNexis pulls Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk offline after unusual third-party server activity

Sources: primary, discussion
Summary: LexisNexis took Diligence, the Metabase API, and Newsdesk offline after what it describes as unusual activity on a third-party server. The Register, publishing 2026-08-10, states the outage ran from Wednesday into the following Monday and gives no calendar dates for it. LexisNexis has not said whether data was compromised.
Why it matters: The Metabase API feeds near-real-time news and social content into customer applications, so this is a multi-day break in an upstream data dependency.
Follow-up: Whether LexisNexis states the cause and whether customer data was accessed.