An email to Lee employees sent later the same day said that its call center applications, some phone lines and other core systems, including its VPN for remote employees and single sign-on for accessing applications, were inaccessible.
The outages have yet to resolve as of Monday. Lee would not make its CISO Rob Hoffpauir available for an interview.
Lee Enterprises released its latest quarterly earnings this week, reporting earnings of $144.6 million for the fiscal first quarter — down 7% year-over-year — but made no reference to the outage or cyberattack.