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(Davenport, IA) -- The owner of several Iowa newspapers is agreeing to pay subscribers 9.5-million dollars to settle a privacy lawsuit.
Lee Enterprises, which also owns the Quad City Times, Muscatine Journal, Sioux City Journal, and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier is also being sued by three former employees.
They allege the company was negligent in protecting the personal information of customers and employees from a February data breach.
At one point the breach prevented some of the papers from publishing.
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