Lee newspapers disrupted by cyber attack
A ransomware attack disrupted printing, distribution and billing at Lee Enterprises' US newspapers for weeks.
- Service
- Lee Enterprises
- Date
- 3 February 2025
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- BleepingComputer ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Lee newspapers disrupted by cyber attack”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 3 Feb 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-02-03-lee-enterprises-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: BleepingComputer, https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cyberattack-disrupts-lee-newspapers-operations-across-the-us/.
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