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Pro-Iran Hackers Claim Cyberattack on Major US Medical Device Maker
The cyberattack wiped data on thousands of devices and halted operations globally at Stryker, which employs over 5,000 people in Ireland, officials said.
- This morning, staff across regions reported that Stryker, a U.S. medical technology company headquartered in Portage, Michigan, experienced a severe, global disruption impacting all Stryker laptops and systems that connect to our network, including its Cork hub.
- Investigators suspect Handala, a pro-Palestinian, Iran-linked hacktivist group, is the likely culprit and has also claimed the Academy of the Hebrew Language website.
- Security experts call the incident a wiper attack that deleted data on targeted IT systems, wiping many personal phones with Outlook and Stryker work profiles, and defaced internal login and admin pages displaying the Handala logo.
- Stryker said it is working with Microsoft, security experts, and law enforcement to restore systems after a shutdown disabled manufacturing machines and production lines in Cork, causing a 4.4% drop in Stryker shares.
- Ireland's National Cyber Security Centre has been notified and is responding, amid reports linking the attack to Iran following U.S. and Israeli military operations begun Feb. 28.
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