The Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper Hacked 

Uploaded on 2023-05-16 in NEWS-Cybersecurity News, FREE TO VIEW

The Philadelphia Inquirer, a major  US newspaper has suffered a large-scale  cyber attack disruption to its operations and rendiering it unable to go to print for the the first time in living memory. 

The company's IT teams along with third-party cyber security experts are working to restore systems after the  attack disrupted operations. The Sunday edition was only available on-line.

With no regular Sunday newspaper and online stories also facing some delays, the cyber attack has triggered the worst disruption to the Inquirer in decades. This attack has been reported to the FBI, and an investigation is on-going.

The attack was first detected when employees found that the newspaper’s content-management system was not working.  

Cyber attacks have become a major threat to media companies, and experts said news organisations can be particularly prized targets because of the nature of their work. Hackers may want to access reporters’ notes and files, for example, or to embarrass a news organisation by leaking emails or Slack messages. Others may want to publish misinformation through real news organisations’ platforms or simply to wreak havoc in a highly visible way. 

News organisations are increasingly being targeted by sophisticated threat actors, as have government agencies, hospitals, universities and the business sector.

Few details about the attack on the Inquirer have been released to staff members or readers. It is unclear whether any personal data has been exposed, exactly which systems had been breached, or who was behind the attack and what motivations they had.

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