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Media giant Lee Enterprises confirms cyberattack as news outlets report ongoing disruption
The newspaper owner said it was determining what data, if any, was stolen.
In an email shared with customers sent Friday, which TechCrunch has seen, Lee CEO Kevin Mowbray said the company was working to “fully restore our systems” following a cyberattack earlier in the week. Tracy Rouch, a spokesperson for Lee Enterprises, confirmed to TechCrunch that the outages were caused by a “cybersecurity event” and that the company was “now focused on determining what information — if any — may have been affected by the situation.” The Wall Street Journal reported in 2021 that Iranian hackers compromised Lee’s content management system as part of a campaign aimed at spreading disinformation ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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