A devastating and allegedly foreign cyberattack hindered newspaper distribution for several major U.S. outlets Saturday, according to news reports. Printing and delivery of the publications was stymied because of the severity of the attack, some deliveries being either delayed or missed altogether, an unidentified person with knowledge of the situation told the Los Angeles Times, one of the papers affected. Among the affected newspapers were the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune and the San Diego Union-Tribune as well as the New York Times’ and the Wall Street Journal’s West Coast editions. Each of them is printed in California at the Los Angeles Times’ downtown printing plant. “A disruption to our print production systems caused delays in the delivery of some of our newspapers Saturday,” the statement read.

Source: Huffington Post December 30, 2018 05:26 UTC