Security News > 2023 > February > Dish multi-day outage rolls on as ransomware fears grow

In an email to The Register on Monday morning, a Dish spokesperson said the satellite TV company is working to restore all of its systems "As quickly as possible," but declined to answer questions about whether the outage was due to a ransomware infection, as has been widely speculated on social media.

"We experienced a systems issue with our corporate network on February 23 that is affecting our internal servers and telephone systems, and the issue is being investigated," the Dish spokesperson said.

"Our DISH TV, Sling TV, Wireless services, and data networks continue to operate and are up and running. However, some of our corporate communications systems, customer care functions, and websites were affected. Our teams are working hard to restore affected systems as quickly as possible and are making steady progress."

Now on day four, the outage began as Dish was announcing its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2022 earnings.

As customers took to Twitter to lament the outage - and the company's lack of transparency - some speculated that Dish suffered a DNS attack, or was the latest ransomware victim.

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