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 spokesperson declined to say if it had received any communication from the hackers, or if it had a timeline for recovery. The company would not say if it has the technical means, such as logs, to determine if any information was accessed or stolen.
Lee did not describe the nature of the cyberattack, nor would the company comment beyond its email.