PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Inquirer says a weekend cyberattack caused the biggest disruption to its operations in 27 years and prevented it from publishing its Sunday print edition. The paper “discovered anomalous activity on select computer systems and immediately took those systems offline,” Inquirer publisher Lisa Hughes said. The cyberattack caused the largest disruption to the publication of Pennsylvania’s largest news organization — the company publishes The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News — since a blizzard in January 1996, the company reported. Mastrull serves as president of the NewsGuild of Greater Philadelphia, which represents workers at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, as well as some suburban papers. The FBI in Philadelphia declined to comment in response to questions from Inquirer journalists, the newspaper reported.

Source: thestar May 16, 2023 19:54 UTC