The American newspaper Philadelphia Inquirer reports that it experienced the worst interruption of its operations in its 27-year history due to a cyberattack.
The company was trying to restore printing operations after a hack prevented copies of the Sunday edition from being printed, the newspaper reported. inquirer on your website.
The web portal was working on Sunday, although updates were taking longer than normal, the newspaper reported.
Inquirer editor Lisa Hughes said Sunday that “at this time we cannot give an exact timeline” for restoring the newspaper’s systems.
“We thank everyone for their patience and understanding as we try to restore the system and complete this investigation as quickly as possible,” Hughes said in an email in response to questions from the newsroom.
The cyberattack was detected on Saturday morning, when employees discovered that the newspaper’s content system was not working.
The Inquirer “discovered anomalous activity on certain computer systems and immediately took those systems offline,” Hughes said.
The cyberattack occurs shortly before a primary election to be held Tuesday to choose mayoral candidates. Hughes assured that the event will not affect coverage of the elections, although journalists will not be able to use the newsroom on election night.
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