Dish: Systems outage ‘due to a cybersecurity incident’

Amid a “systems issue” now in its sixth day, Dish Network confirmed Tuesday that a “cybersecurity incident” is to blame for network outages that are impacting the company’s internal servers, corporate communications, certain Dish-owned websites and IT telephony systems. On top of that “certain data was extracted” from the company’s IT systems as a result, Dish added.

Following word from the company that an internal investigation is underway to get to the roots of the issue, Dish outlined this new detail Tuesday in an SEC filing.

Dish noted in the filing that the company “immediately activated its incident response and business continuity plans designed to contain, assess and remediate the situation. The services of cybersecurity experts and outside advisors were retained to assist in the evaluation of the situation.”

Dish added that it has since “determined that the outage was due to a cybersecurity incident and notified appropriate law-enforcement authorities.”

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