Security News > 2023 > February > Dish Network goes down in a mysterious outage, employees cut off
American TV giant and satellite broadcast provider, Dish Network has mysteriously gone offline with its websites and apps ceasing to function over the past 24 hours.
The widespread outage affects Dish.com, Dish Anywhere app as well as several websites and networks owned by the corporation.
Dish Network's remote employees have been cut off from accessing their work systems.
'Dish Answers,' the company's Twitter support account states that "An internal systems issue is impacting some of our customer service operations," and that the network is working hard to restore access.
A report published by The Verge also shows an internal email sent to Dish Network's employees, with management notifying them of an ongoing "VPN issue."
A source in touch with a Dish Network employee told BleepingComputer that the network "Has been hit" with employees seeing "Blank icons" on their Desktop-something that typically occurs after a ransomware infection encrypts the victim's files.