Dish Comes Clean On February Hack: Affects Personal Info Of 300K Employees, Customer Details Unaffected

DISH Network Corp DISH recently confirmed that hackers targeted the personal information of nearly 300,000 individuals months after the February ransomware attack.
The firm said hackers accessed hundreds of thousands of employee-related records during the cyberattack, TechCrunch cites a last week attorney general filing.
It said that former employees, employees’ family members, and a “limited number of other individuals” were affected by the breach.
Dish’s data hack information confirms that hackers also accessed driver’s license numbers and other forms of identification.
The company has reportedly received confirmation that the hackers have deleted the extracted data, implying some negotiation between the hackers and the victim.
Hackers have not added Dish to the dark web leak site of the Russia-linked Black Basta ransomware gang — allegedly behind the cyberattack — another sign of potential negotiation between the parties.
Dish’s ransomware incident came to the forefront in late February after customers complained about a prolonged outage that prevented them from accessing streams, services, or their accounts.
Previous reports claimed the hack to have affected 10 million or more customers.
Price Action: DISH shares closed higher by 1.19% at $6.78 on Monday.