HackingTechnologyInformationData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDHighContained

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated

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Severity

High

Discovered

Feb 3, 2025

Filed

Jun 3, 2025

To disclose

—

Affected

3,354state residents only

Linked

14 filings

Confidence

66%

Full breach record for Lee Enterprises, Incorporated →

Lee Enterprises notified the Nebraska Attorney General of a data security incident affecting approximately 3,354 Nebraska residents. Unauthorized access to personal information, including names, Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers, occurred around February 1, 2025, and was discovered on February 3, 2025. Lee engaged cybersecurity experts, notified the FBI, and provided 12 months of credit monitoring services to affected individuals starting June 3, 2025.

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Leak gap clock⏱ Leak >90d

Incident timeline

undetected · 2 days

Feb 1, 2025

Begins

Feb 3, 2025

Discovered

Jun 3, 2025

Filed

This filing is one of 14 about the same incident.View merged incident

A leak claim by qilin about this victim predates this filing by 120 days.View originating leak claim

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Montana State AGbd_19ef3d9a34d1e9e32025-06-03Verified
New Hampshire State AGbd_2ca38f39e16972c82025-06-03Verified
Maine State AGbd_5c4976e1eeef53042025-06-03Verified
Vermont State AGbd_76c8276f9ce089732025-06-03Verified

Show 6 more filings ↓up to 89d gap

Oregon State AGbd_31e8f14655399ee62025-06-04 · +1dVerified
Massachusetts State AGbd_342bdbbebf2f7ed12025-06-04 · +1dVerified
California State AGbd_7ab185d4c140c40d2025-06-04 · +1dVerified
Texas State AGbd_ae0c7ca4d829002b2025-06-05 · +2dVerified
Illinois State AGbd_5237fce167e0e1102025-06-01 · +2dCandidate
SEC 8-Kbd_a2d5ab16cd5f49522025-03-06 · +89dVerified by operator

Showing first 10 of 13 linked disclosures.

Name: Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
norm: lee
Domain: lee.net

Name: Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
norm: lee
Domain: lee.net
Industry: Technologyllm

Discovered: Feb 3, 2025
Breach occurred: Feb 1, 2025
Undetected for: 2 daysoccurrence → discovery
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jun 3, 2025
Affected individuals: 3,354state-resident count only
Data types: Identity (basic)Government ID
Attack vector: Unauthorized Access
MITRE ATT&CK: T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Threat actor: External
Regulator citations: Notified Nebraska Attorney General
Initial access: exploit_public_facing

During the incident: Engaged a team of cybersecurity experts
Launched a comprehensive investigation
Secured its network environment
Notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Provided access to credit monitoring services for twelve (12) months through IDX
Changes made: Working to implement additional safeguards and training to its employees
Provided impacted individuals with guidance on how to better protect against identity theft and fraud
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: Leak >90d
Discovery-date grounding: letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Filing propagation · 11 filings · 10 states

View merged incident ↗

SEC 8-KMar 6 · first

Illinois State AG+87d

Montana State AG+89d

New Hampshire State AG+89d

Maine State AG+89d

Vermont State AG+89d

Nebraska State AG+89d · this page

Oregon State AG+90d

Massachusetts State AG+90d

California State AG+90d

Texas State AG+91d

Pattern: first filing Mar 6, last Jun 5 (TX) — a 91-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Cascade drawn from the first 10 linked disclosures of 13 — the full spread may be wider.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://nebraska.gov/ago/data-breach/documents/d6da06aa-ba88-472f-a82f-710d8751aad7.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jun 3, 2025
Raw hash: 387035acd9ebbe3c11e62d78e932d5b94d75416ac09661795488d9f222e62364

Linked disclosures

Regulatory filings (10) · sorted by filing gap

Reporting entityLee Enterprises, Incorporated

Victim entityLee Enterprises, Incorporated

Incidentdiscovered Feb 3, 2025

Stated responseEngaged a team of cybersecurity experts

ComplianceLeak >90d

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenancenebraska.gov