A dark week for journalism
The cyberattack on Impresa is one of many that Portuguese companies suffer every day. But the disappearance of SIC’s and Expresso’s digital archive is an incalculable loss.
This week was marked by the cyberattack on the SIC Notícias and Expresso websites, carried out by a self-styled “Lapsus$ group”. The attack brought down these and other Impresa sites, which stayed down for several days, until Wednesday, when they came back in a temporary format.
Companies, including Portuguese ones, are “the target of hundreds of cyberattacks every day”, as Altice Portugal pointed out this week, itself allegedly the victim of a supposed data leak published on the internet on Thursday.
AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 7 January 2022.