Dish losses data of 3,00,000 employees in a ransomware attack

US-based satellite television giant Dish has confirmed that hackers stole the personal information of about 3,00,000 employees in a ransomware attack in February this year.  

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According to ET report, the company has informed the former employees about the matter. Additionally, the data breach has affected employees’ family members and a “limited number of other individuals”.

In the letter sent to the affected, the company noted that it has “received confirmation that the extracted data has been deleted.

A data breach notification was filed with Maine`s attorney general last week. During the cyberattack the customer databases were unaffected. On the other end, the hackers accessed hundreds of thousands of employee-related records. The company currently employs nearly 16,000 people.

Meanwhile, PharMerica, a leading pharmacy service provider in the US, which operates in more than 2,500 facilities across the country and offers over 3,100 pharmacy and healthcare programmes, has disclosed a data breach that compromised the personal information of nearly six million patients.

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According to the reports in the Dish case, the data breach notification has come months after the company confirmed that hackers stole data from its systems during the cybersecurity attack. Moreover, without revealing whether customers or employees were affected.

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