By Jacob Barker Lee Enterprises

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Lee Enterprises, the parent company of the Greensboro News & Record and Winston-Salem Journal, has disclosed that the personal information of nearly 40,000 people "may have been accessed or acquired" in a February cyberattack.

The hack hobbled the company's newspapers for weeks and caused it to delay several debt payments.

The company sent an email to employees Wednesday saying it had completed its investigation into the Feb. 3 breach and that some employees may have had their personal information compromised.

It also began informing state regulators of the impact on consumers, who may have had their information stolen, and sending letters to people whose data was compromised.

Lee employs about 3,000 people at newspapers and other publ

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