PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia Inquirer says a weekend cyberattack caused the biggest disruption to its operations in 27 years and prevented it from publishing its Sunday print edition.
The attack was detected Saturday morning when employees found that the paper’s content-management system wasn’t working, the Inquirer reported on its website.
The paper “discovered anomalous activity on select computer systems and immediately took those systems off-line,” Inquirer publisher Lisa Hughes said.
The cyberattack caused the largest disruption to the publication of Pennsylvania’s largest news organization—the company publishes The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadelphia Daily News—since a blizzard in January 1996, the company reported….