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Lee Enterprises, Incorporated
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Full breach record for Lee Enterprises, Incorporated →Lee Enterprises disclosed a February 3, 2025 cybersecurity attack causing a systems outage. Threat actors accessed the network, encrypted critical applications, and exfiltrated files. Investigation into PII compromise is ongoing. The incident disrupted print distribution, billing, collections, and vendor payments. Weekly/ancillary products (~5% of revenue) remain unrestored as of February 12, 2025. The Company expects a material financial impact and maintains cybersecurity insurance.
SEC clockMateriality determined Feb 12, 2025 → Filed Feb 18, 20256d ✓ SEC 4-day OK15 days discovery → filing
⚠ occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
This filing is one of 7 about the same incident.View merged incident
Linked disclosures
Why this link?Ransomware claims (1)
- bd_43d738666169b421Leak Siteqilinfiled 2025-02-03(15d gap)Verified by operator
Regulatory filings (5) · sorted by filing gap
- bd_a2d5ab16cd5f4952SEC 8-Kfiled 2025-03-06(16d gap)Verified by operator
- bd_19ef3d9a34d1e9e3Montana State AGfiled 2025-06-03(105d gap)Verified by operator
- bd_31e8f14655399ee6Oregon State AGfiled 2025-06-04(106d gap)Verified
- bd_7ab185d4c140c40dCalifornia State AGfiled 2025-06-04(106d gap)Verified
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- bd_ae0c7ca4d829002bTexas State AGfiled 2025-06-05(107d gap)Verified
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/58361/000162828025005855/lee-20250212.htm
DisclosureLens renders the full SEC/HHS filing inline below from the originating regulator’s public record (§4.5 fair report privilege).
- Filed at
- Feb 18, 2025
- Raw hash
- b15431f0a5b121223d599e117308b76fa21d474397b974b76e83af02d8888b60
Source filing
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Reporting entity
- Name
- Lee Enterprises, Incorporatednorm: lee
- SEC CIK
- 0000058361
- Domain
- lee.net
Victim entity
- Name
- Lee Enterprises, Incorporatednorm: lee
- SEC CIK
- 0000058361
- Domain
- lee.net
- Industry
- Telecom & MediallmNAICS 513110 · Newspaper Publishers
Incident
- Discovered
- Feb 3, 2025
- Materiality determined
- Feb 12, 2025
- Notification sent
- —
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- —
- Attack vector
- Ransomware
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified relevant law enforcementWill notify relevant federal and state regulatory bodies and consumer protection agencies as necessary
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 15 days(15 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- SEC 4-day OK · 6d
- Discovery-date grounding
- occurrence dateThe stored discovery date equals the breach OCCURRENCE date. Detection is normally later, so this OVERSTATES the delay — a 'late' verdict here may not be real.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status SEC Materiality determined: Feb 12, 2025→ Filed: Feb 18, 20256d cal. 4 business days SEC 4-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.