Universal Health Services, one of the largest hospital and healthcare services providers in the US, confirmed today that the IT network that supports its facilities is offline in the wake of what it called “an IT security issue” The company’s email system appeared to still be down today, as a spokesperson responded to inquiries about the attack via a personal account after an attempt was made to reach the company via its corporate email system. TechCrunch reported on Sept. 28 that the event was a ransomware attack, and that it had locked out UHS users from computer and telecommunications systems.”]