DISH tells SEC that ransomware attack caused outages; personal info may have been stolen

Satellite broadcast giant DISH told the SEC on Tuesday that a ransomware attack is what caused “system issues” that occurred over the weekend. 

In an 8-K form filing, DISH confirmed rumors that they had been hit with ransomware, warning that on Monday they became aware that “certain data was extracted from the Corporation’s IT systems as part of this incident.”

They added that law enforcement was contacted after it was determined that “the outage was due to a cybersecurity …

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