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A message to subscribers

To: Our Users

Subject: Follow Up to Notice About a Cyber Attack

On June 7, 2011, the Gannett Government Media family of websites suffered a cyber attack that resulted in some users being unable to access parts or all of the websites. We also discovered that the attacker gained unauthorized access to files containing information of some of our users. The information in those files included first and last name, userID, password, email address, the internal number we assigned to the account, and, if provided, ZIP code, duty status, paygrade, and branch of service.

No financial information was compromised.

We will be sending individual notices by email with more information to all users whose information was affected.

We encourage you to take this opportunity to reset or strengthen your passwords on your Gannett Government Media Corporation or Military Times, Defense News or Federal Times accounts, as well as your other online accounts, particularly those that use the same email address used for your Gannett Government Media Corporation account as a user name or account identifier.

Additional information about protecting your personal information online is available at the Federal Trade Commission’s OnGuard Online website at www.onguardonline.gov.

We have been working with an outside computer forensics company to help us investigate the breach and strengthen our security controls. We deeply regret any inconvenience that this may cause and appreciate your understanding. We take the security and privacy of your information very seriously and will continue to work diligently to protect your information. If you have any questions about this notice please feel free to contact us at cust-svc@gannettgov.com or 1-800-368-5718 or 1-703-750-7400.