Crims stole 40,000 people's data from our network, admits publisher Lee Enterprises

Regional newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises says data belonging to around 40,000 people was stolen during an attack on its network earlier this year. The Iowa-based company confirmed first and last names, as well as social security numbers, were among the data types potentially accessed, although it does not think any of it …

[Anonymous Coward]

Well this is fun?

Lee Enterprise is not having any fun lately.

I just got an email saying I'm probably in a class settlement with Lee Enterprise due to them allegedly giving Facebook PII when I watched videos on a Lee newspaper web page.

"Plaintiffs allege Defendant disclosed Plaintiffs’ and Settlement Class Members’ personally identifiable information (“PII”) to Facebook without consent through use of tracking methods in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (the “VPPA”). "

Wait, I just read the story about Facebook getting caught tracking people. Small world, I guess.

[sitta_europea]

Horse, meet stable door.

"As soon as we discovered this incident, we took the steps described above and implemented measures to enhance security ..."