Security News > 2023 > February > Dish: Someone snatched our data, if you're wondering why our IT systems went down

In a filing today to America's financial watchdog about the snafu, Dish confirmed "The outage was due to a cyber-security incident," though it didn't share any details as to what the incident was, nor did the broadband biz directly answer our questions to that end when asked.

Without an actual statement from Dish, or internal information that The Register could verify, it falls to speculation to determine whether ransomware was the cause of Dish's troubles, but luckily the corporation included one tidbit that could point to such: the culprits did make off with some data.

"On February 27, 2023, the Corporation became aware that certain data was extracted from the Corporation's IT systems as part of this incident," Dish said.

Leaving the door as open as it possibly could, the company added that "It is possible the investigation will reveal that the extracted data includes personal information," though whether that's customer or employee info is unclear, and Dish didn't answer that question either.

"The security of our customers' data is important to us, and if we learn that information was compromised, we'll take the appropriate steps and let any impacted customers know," a Dish spokesperson told us in an emailed statement.

Dish stock dropped nearly six percent today on its admission of a cybersecurity kerfuffle, and a near-simultaneous announcement that Bank of America double-downgraded Dish stock from buy to underperform, and cut its price target from $30 to $10 - lower than its value of $11 at time of writing.

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