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Denmark’s biggest news agency will stay offline for at least another day following a hacking attack this week and has rejected a ransom demand by hackers to release locked data, the wire service said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Ritzau CEO Lars Vesterloekke couldn’t say how big the ransom demand was because those behind the “professional attack” had left “a file with a message” that the agency didn’t open following instructions from its advisers.<\/p>\n

Ritzau, which delivers text and photos to Danish media<\/a>, said it had transferred its emergency distribution to clients to six live blogs “which provide a better overview.”<\/p>\n

“If it goes as expected, then we can gradually be back to normal on Thursday,” said Vesterloekke, adding that the attack has forced the editorial systems to be shut down as about a quarter of Ritzau<\/a> ‘s 100 servers have been damaged.<\/p>\n

On top of the agency’s own IT department, Ritzau has hired an external security company that specializes in cleaning up after hacker attacks, and its insurance company was assisting with specialists.<\/p>\n

It was not known who was behind the attack that started Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Since 1866, Copenhagen-based Ritzau has distributed information and produced news for Danish media, organizations and companies.\n <\/p>\n\n

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