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News-Press & Gazette Company data breach

USUnited States · MO

News-Press & Gazette Company (MO, United States) notified the Oregon Department of Justice, the Texas Attorney General, the California Attorney General and the Washington Attorney General of a data breach on 17 December 2025. It told the states about 11,440 Oregon residents; the total can be higher. Exposed: Social Security numbers, Dates of birth and Names. The breach began on 2 September 2025, 106 days before it was reported.

Status
Confirmed breach
People affected
11,440 Oregon residents (one state’s count; the total can be higher)
Reported
17 December 2025
Across the state notices
at least 12,018 people (Oregon, Texas and Washington: each state counts only its own residents)
Breach began
2 September 2025
Time to tell
106 days (the median in California’s notices over the last year: 154 days)

What was exposed

  • Social Security numbers
  • Dates of birth
  • Names

Before the notice: the ransomware gang Termite named News-Press & Gazette Company on its leak site on 16 September 2025, 92 days before this was reported. Matched by the organisation’s name: the notice itself does not say who the attacker was.

Sources

Official notices are read by code from the regulator’s own register. More notices to Oregon, Texas, California, Washington. · Corrections and changes

If News-Press & Gazette Company had your data

  1. Look for News-Press & Gazette Company’s own notice or letter: it should say what of yours was involved. Keep it.
  2. An ID number cannot be changed, so lock it: a credit freeze or fraud alert in the US, a credit warning (kreditadvarsel) on borger.dk in Denmark, Cifas protective registration in the UK.
  3. Expect scams that use your details: calls, texts or emails pretending to be News-Press & Gazette Company, your bank or the police. Never give codes or passwords, never approve a sign-in you did not start, never move money.

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