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evening and thank you for joining us we
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have new information tonight on the it
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outage that has forced Leu University
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Medical Center to divert all incoming
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emergency and Non-Emergency patients to
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nearby Health Facilities now we have
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confirmed the outage was caused by
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ransomware KCBD News Channel 11's
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investigative reporter Shaye Kidwell has
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followed the story since we confirmed
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the diversion at 10: this morning Shaye
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what what do we know Karen and Adar
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while the UMC health system is currently
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on local and Regional diversion duee to
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that it outage from uh ransomware we're
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told its Health Care Facilities remain
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open for existing inpatients UMC
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physician clinics are also open as the
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hospital system continues to provide
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essential care UMC says it is working
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closely with its local and Regional
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Partners to coordinate care and redirect
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patients as smoothly as possible in a
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news release issue today UMC stated its
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team is working diligently to
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investigate and resolve the issues as it
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prioritizes patient safety and works to
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minimize the impact on critical Services
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again we have now confirmed this is the
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result of ransomware this just into The
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Newsroom and we've learned that cyber
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attacks are becoming more common at
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healthc care facilities across the
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country in January of this year a
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Tennessee based company with dozens of
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Hospitals and Clinics across the country
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reported to the Texas Attorney General
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that a ransomware attack in November of
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last year affected the personal
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17,500 Texas p patients our sister
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station in Tyler reported that the
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ransomware attack forced UT Health East
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Texas to divert some emergency room
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patients to other hospitals until
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systems could come back online Hospital
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facilities were also forced to
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reschedule some non-emergency surgeries
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we've learned the attack affected the
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company's hospitals in other states too
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forcing diversions there Texas law
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requires businesses and organizations
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that experience a data breach of system
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security that affects 250 or more Texas
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to report that breach to the office of
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the Texas Attorney General as soon as
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pract practicably possible and no later
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than 30 days after the discovery of the
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breach they must also provide notice of
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the breach to affected customers we have
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a link to the list of businesses and
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organizations that have filed with the
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AG's office on our website we spoke with
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County Judge Curtis Parish who said UMC
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leadership notified him of the it outage
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this morning Parish said he contacted
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the County's cyber response team which
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made up of the County's it department
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and the Emergency Management coordinator
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they were told to be on standby should
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UMC need any assistance of course this
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is a developing story we'll continue to
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keep you updated Ken NE thank you Shaye
