Day 2 of canceled classes at University of New Mexico after Health Sciences Center cyberattack

A cyberattack targeting the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center caused cascading disruptions, including canceled classes, suspended appointments, and ambulance diversions — hallmarks of inadequate network segmentation between administrative, academic, and clinical systems. When a single attack can simultaneously disable university operations and divert emergency medical care, it signals that critical healthcare infrastructure was not sufficiently isolated from broader institutional networks. The multi-day recovery period further suggests incident response plans were either absent, untested, or insufficiently resourced for a healthcare environment. This incident matters because lives can be endangered when hospital operations are disrupted, making healthcare cybersecurity a patient safety issue, not merely an IT concern.