I too, am leery of accepting this incident as a deliberate attack. The Chicago Tribune wrote a less hyperbolic article, indicating that they were forced to pri

I too, am leery of accepting this incident as a deliberate attack. The Chicago Tribune wrote a less hyperbolic article, indicating that they were forced to print a stripped down version of their paper[0]. An NBC reporter reached out to Tribune for comment, which seems to shed more light on the nature of the problem. [1] >The computer malware was detected Friday and “impacted some back-office systems which are primarily used to publish and produce newspapers across our properties,” said Marisa Kollias, Tribune communications vice president, in a statement. At this point I don't see any reason to believe that a copy formatter (I don't know the industry term) didn't just happen to be looking at porn during their break, and accidentally clicked the wrong link. The LATime's treatment of the event is lazy and, I suspect, quite misleading. [0]https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-computer-virus-tribune-publishing-20181229-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-computer-viru... [1]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/computer-virus-hits-southern-california-newspapers-n953001 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/computer-virus-hits-sou...