Universal Health Services, which operates over 400 hospitals and healthcare facilities in the US, Puerto Rico, and the UK, said on Monday that its IT network was offline due to an unspecified cybersecurity issue.
"We implement extensive IT security protocols and are working diligently with our IT security partners to restore IT operations as quickly as possible," the biz said in a statement. "In the meantime, our facilities are using their established back-up processes including offline documentation methods."
UHS insists patient care continues to be delivered and that "no patient or employee data appears to have been accessed, copied or otherwise compromised."
A UHS spokesperson declined to provide further details or to comment on hospital computers early unofficial diagnosis suspected outbreak ransomware
