{"id":76627,"date":"2018-12-30T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T01:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/foreign-cyber-attack-disrupted-printing-of-major-newspapers-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2018-12-30T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T01:25:59","slug":"foreign-cyber-attack-disrupted-printing-of-major-newspapers-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/foreign-cyber-attack-disrupted-printing-of-major-newspapers-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Cyber Attack Disrupted Printing of Major Newspapers This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign Cyber Attack Disrupted Printing of Major Newspapers This Weekend<\/b><\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Times<\/em>, Chicago Tribune<\/em>, Wall Street Journal,<\/em> and New York Times<\/em>\u00a0 were among the newspapers affected by a malware virus that shut down or disrupted printing and distribution across the country.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s attack appeared to originate outside the United States, the Los Angeles Times<\/em> reported<\/a>. It led to distribution delays in the Saturday edition of the Times<\/em>, the Tribune<\/em>, the Sun,<\/em> and other newspapers that share a production platform in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said it was studying the situation. \u201cWe are aware of reports of a potential cyber incident affecting several news outlets, and are working with our government and industry partners to better understand the situation,\u201d said DHS spokeswoman Katie Waldman.<\/p>\n

Tribune Publishing, which owns the Chicago Tribune<\/em> and the Sun<\/em>, as well as the New York Daily News<\/em> and Orlando Sentinel<\/em>, said it first detected the malware<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

The west coast editions of the Wall Street Journal<\/em> and New York Times<\/em> were also hit, as they are printed on the shared production platform, the Los Angeles Times<\/em> said.<\/p>\n