{"id":1280308,"date":"2023-12-05T13:07:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T19:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1280308"},"modified":"2023-12-06T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T00:08:00","slug":"ut-health-ransomware-attack-effecting-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1280308","title":{"rendered":"UT Health ransomware attack effecting patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1250313\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1-175x90.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1-175x90.jpg 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1-200x103.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1-550x283.jpg 550w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1-768x395.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>WHITEHOUSE, Texas &#8211; Patient care is now being affected because of the recent ransomware attack on UT Health East Texas. According to our news partner KETK, Patricia Cowan and her sister have been forced to wait on daily phone calls in order to find out if she can receive urgent treatment for her case of cancer. The ransomware attack, that was almost two weeks ago, means that now Patricia must travel 45 minutes to get care. Director of Communications Allison Pollan spoke with KETK and said that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153safely caring for patients remains our highest priority.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHOUSE, Texas &#8211; Patient care is now being affected because of the recent ransomware attack on UT Health East Texas. According to our news partner KETK, Patricia Cowan and her sister have been forced to wait on daily phone calls in order to find out if she can receive urgent treatment for her case of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1280308\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Health ransomware attack effecting patients<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3908,"featured_media":1280318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1-175x90.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Health ransomware attack effecting patients","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 20:33:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/08\/UT-health-1-175x90.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Health ransomware attack effecting patients","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280606,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280308\/revisions\/1280606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}