Breaking the Newsroom
Lee Enterprises 2025 ransomware by Qilin encrypted news systems, stole 350GB, and exposed 39,779 employees’ data.
In early 2025, one of America’s largest local news publishers became the target of a ransomware attack that shut down printing presses, silenced websites, and exposed thousands of people’s private data.
The victim? Lee Enterprises, owner of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and more than 75 other local newspapers across the U.S.
The Russian-linked Qilin ransomw…
