"Potential Cybersecurity Incident Causes Network Outage and Divert Status at UT Health East Texas"
UT Health East Texas, a network of hospitals in East Texas, has been unable to accept ambulances to emergency rooms since Thanksgiving Day due to a potential cybersecurity incident. The hospital network is currently operating using downtime procedures while investigating the incident and working to bring computers back online. This incident follows a series of cyberattacks on hospitals across the United States in recent months. The Department of Health and Human Services, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the FBI have not yet commented on the situation. Cybersecurity threats to healthcare providers have been persistent, with hundreds of organizations being forced offline by cyberattacks since the start of the pandemic.