Ransomware attack forced hospitals to divert away ambulances

A major American public healthcare provider was forced it to divert patients to other facilities after suffering a ransomware attack.

UMC Health System, or University Medical Center Health System, is a comprehensive public healthcare provider based in Lubbock, Texas. It serves as a teaching hospital for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and provides a wide range of healthcare services, including inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and specialized care.

Its website is currently offline, but BleepingComputer noted while it was still available, it displayed an announcement that the organization fell prey to a ransomware attack.

No word from the attackers

“UMC Health System recently detected unusual activity within our IT systems. Immediately after detecting this activity, our teams launched an investigation and took steps to proactively disconnect our systems to contain the incident. Through the ongoing investigation, we determined that the unusual activity was connected to a ransomware incident,” the company was ...