[SanDiegoUnionTribune] A cyberattack that appears to have originated from outside the United States caused major printing and delivery problems at the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers across the country Saturday.
Only about 15 percent of Union-Tribune subscribers got delivery on Saturday ‐ the biggest publishing disruption in decades.
The attack led to distribution delays at the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, and stymied distribution of the West Coast editions of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, which are all printed at the Los Angeles Times’ Olympic printing plant in downtown Los Angeles.
Technology teams for the Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and their former owner, Tribune Publishing, worked feverishly to quarantine the computer virus, but it spread and re-infected systems crucial to the news production and printing process.
Multiple newspapers around the country were affected because they share Tribune’s production platform. The Union-Tribune and The Times were taken private in June by Los Angeles biotech entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, but the companies continue to share some computer systems.
By Saturday afternoon, the companies suspected the cyberattack originated from outside the United States, but officials said it was too soon to say whether it was carried out by a foreign state or some other entity, said a source with knowledge of the situation.
"We believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal information," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. The source would not detail what evidence led the company to believe the breach came from overseas.
cyberattack that appears to have originated from outside the United States caused major printing and delivery problems at the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers across the country Saturday.
Only about 15 percent of Union-Tribune subscribers got delivery on Saturday ‐ the biggest publishing disruption in decades.
The attack led to distribution delays at the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, and stymied distribution of the West Coast editions of the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, which are all printed at the Los Angeles Times’ Olympic printing plant in downtown Los Angeles.
Technology teams for the Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and their former owner, Tribune Publishing, worked feverishly to quarantine the computer virus, but it spread and re-infected systems crucial to the news production and printing process.
Multiple newspapers around the country were affected because they share Tribune’s production platform. The Union-Tribune and The Times were taken private in June by Los Angeles biotech entrepreneur Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, but the companies continue to share some computer systems.
By Saturday afternoon, the companies suspected the cyberattack originated from outside the United States, but officials said it was too soon to say whether it was carried out by a foreign state or some other entity, said a source with knowledge of the situation.
"We believe the intention of the attack was to disable infrastructure, more specifically servers, as opposed to looking to steal information," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. The source would not detail what evidence led the company to believe the breach came from overseas.
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Poor Mrs. Uluque was beside herself because her morning paper never came. Obviously the publisher did not listen to IT staff recommendations to beef up cyber security. You don't make profits that way. Better to gamble that it will never happen and, if it does, the losses won't be that bad. 
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