Dish Network confirms 'cybersecurity incident' caused multi-day outage of websites, customer service systems

• Dish Network's websites and customer service lines were down for much of the last week.
• Employees reportedly were kept in the dark about the cause of the issue, with some unable to work.
• The company confirmed Tuesday the cause of the issue was a "cybersecurity incident."

Dish Network confirmed in a statement Tuesday that a "cybersecurity incident" was the reason for outages of the company's websites and customer service phone lines over the past week.