The Philadelphia Inquirer is experiencing the largest disruption to its operations in 27 years due to what the daily newspaper called a cyberattack that was first detected Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
The attack has prompted Pennsylvania\u2019s largest news organization to close its office through at least Tuesday, meaning Inquirer reporters will be unable to use their newsroom on Tuesday night to cover the city\u2019s Democratic primary for the city\u2019s 100th mayoral election.<\/p>\n
This incident has caused the greatest publication disruption to the paper since a massive blizzard in January 1996, the paper reported.<\/p>\n
The newspaper is working to restore print operations after the apparent cyberattack prevented it from printing its Sunday edition.<\/p>\n
The Inquirer\u2019s website was still operational on Sunday, but the paper reported that updates were slower than normal. Online publication has not been interrupted.<\/p>\n
The attack was first detected when employees on Saturday morning found the newspaper\u2019s content management system was not working.<\/p>\n
The Inquirer \u201cdiscovered anomalous activity on select computer systems and immediately took those systems off-line,\u201d the paper\u2019s publisher, Lisa Hughes, said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n
She said the outlet was \u201cfirst alerted to the anomalous activity on Thursday, May 11, by Cynet, a vendor that manages our network security.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is far from the first time a news outlet has faced a cyberattack. Last December, The Guardian suffered a ransomware attack that forced the British daily newspaper to take certain IT systems offline for weeks.<\/p>\n
Hughes said Sunday, \u201cWe are currently unable to provide an exact time line\u201d for full restoration of the paper\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe appreciate everyone\u2019s patience and understanding as we work to fully restore systems and complete this investigation as soon as possible,\u201d Hughes said in an email responding to questions from the paper\u2019s newsroom.<\/p>\n
Hughes said the operational disruption will not affect coverage of the upcoming election and that the company was looking into co-working arrangements for Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The newspaper has hired the risk advisory firm Kroll to restore systems and investigate the incident.<\/p>\n
The company has also contacted the FBI about the incident.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the FBI\u2019s Philadelphia office told the Inquirer it was aware of the incident and declined to comment as a matter of standard practice. She said that \u201cwhen the FBI learns about potential cyberattacks, it\u2019s customary that we offer our assistance in these matters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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