U.S. satellite television giant Dish has confirmed that hackers stole the personal information of almost 300,000 individuals during a February ransomware attack.
In a data breach notification filed with Maine’s attorney general last week, Dish said that while customer databases were unaffected by the incident, hackers accessed hundreds of thousands of employee-related records during the cyberattack. Dish, which currently employs around 16,000 people, said that former employees, employees’ family members and a “limited number of other individuals” were affected by the breach.
This long-awaited data breach notice comes months after Dish confirmed that hackers had exfiltrated data from its systems during the cybersecurity incident without revealing whether customers or employees were affected.
Dish’s data breach notification confirms that hackers also accessed driver’s license numbers and other forms of identification …
