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Surgeries cancelled, clinics closed after University of Mississippi Medical Center hit by ransomware attack

By Mississippi Free Press  
   February 23, 2026

A devastating cyberattack using ransomware hit the University of Mississippi Medical Center Thursday morning, bringing down its IT network and forcing the university to temporarily close its clinics and cancel appointments and surgeries all over the state due to the outage. 

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