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Wednesday morning glitch was not a cyber-attack or hijack

 

[June 26, 2024] 

On Wednesday morning when readers paid a visit to Lincoln Daily News to get the most recent headlines from the community, they were met with an ominous message that the site they were trying to access was not secure or even worse could be an imposter aimed at stealing personal information.

It sounded much worse than it was, but it was enough to give our readers pause before clicking through. Some of our readers reached out to ask us if everything was okay, and should they be concerned for themselves.

We apologize for the concern it may have caused some of you and want you to know that LDN was not attacked, hacked, or hijacked. Your personal information was not at risk, and the message you received was simply the worst-case scenario for what ended up being a glitch with our Security Certificate that enables us to have a https secure website.

LDN is fortunate to have talented IT staff in-house and from a third-party source. Once IT started digging into it and the error was revealed, the problem was fixed within a matter of minutes.

Again we apologize to our readers for the alarm it may have caused. We understand fully the need to feel confident in the security of the websites you visit daily and we strive to make sure that you have no reason to doubt the safety of visiting our website.

We appreciate our readers, and want them to always be safe in their internet activities.

Nila Smith
Karen Castelein
Lincoln Daily News