The Watertown Daily Times, which circulates in St. Lawrence County, was unable to print its Sunday news sections due to an apparent cyberattack.

“Saturday afternoon the newspaper’s information technology staff discovered servers and computers had been infiltrated by a malware virus that encrypted files,” wrote Managing Editor Alec Johnson in a story posted on the paper's website.

“The main news sections, sports and Sunday Weekly could not be printed Saturday night because the computers that run a machine that burns plates for the printing press was corrupted,” the story said. “IT staff worked late into the night to build a new server to run the machine, but the solution was not determined in time to print the paper for morning delivery.”

Some sections of the paper that had been printed in advance, including classified ads, comics and inserts, were delivered without the news, sports and opinion sections.