Either way, we won’t know for certain until the investigation is concluded and findings are published.īleeping Computer has been told by sources that the Black Blasta ransomware operation is allegedly behind the attack, “first breaching Boost Mobile and then the Dish corporate network”. Perhaps the scale of the attack is something to behold, or maybe the attackers just got lucky. However, it is somewhat unusual to see so many services fall over simultaneously. It’s not uncommon for a business to be rendered inoperable in the aftermath of a ransomware attack. This is in addition to people not being able to pay bills or login. “Other websites and networks” operated and owned by DISH network.To give some idea of the scale of the outage, services impacted according to Silicon include some of the below:: A statement given to The Record states that customers will be contacted if this turns out to be the case. The Corporation is actively engaged in restoring the affected systems and is making steady progress.Īt this point, DISH still can’t confirm whether or not personal data has been compromised. DISH, Sling and our wireless and data networks remain operational however the Corporation’s internal communications, customer call centres and internet sites have been affected. The forensic investigation and assessment of the impact of this incident is ongoing. At this point, it’s not certain if personal information is included in the extracted data. Having already determined that the outage was due to a “cybersecurity incident”, law enforcement was informed and security experts were brought in to assess the situation.įebruary 27: DISH becomes aware that data was extracted from IT systems as a result of the ransomware attack. The timeline is as follows:įebruary 23: DISH announces on an earnings call that a network outage affected internal servers and IT telephony. A timeline of ransomwareĭISH filed an 8-K form, used to inform shareholders of major events, to explain the situation. This suspicion has turned out to be correct, as DISH has reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission that a ransomware attack is responsible. There was a suspicion that something may have gone wrong behind the scenes. Websites and channels were unavailable, logins were non-functional, and some folks couldn’t even pay their bills as a result of the downtime. Satellite broadcast organisation DISH experienced a major system issue over the past week which affected multiple services.

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