Iran-linked hackers hit medical giant Stryker in retaliatory cyberattack [View all]
Source: Al Jazeera, Reuters, The Associated Press
A major cyberattack has crippled the global networks of Stryker, one of the world’s largest medical device companies, with an Iran-linked hacking group claiming responsibility and warning it marks “the beginning of a new chapter in cyber warfare”.
Handala, a hacking persona with documented ties to Tehran, said it carried out the attack in retaliation for the killing of more than 170 people, most of them schoolgirls, in a strike on a school in the southern Iranian city of Minab on the first day of the US-Israeli military war against Iran.
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The hacking group said it had seized 50 terabytes of company data, which it claimed was “now in the hands of the free people of the world.”
The outages began shortly after midnight on the US East Coast on Wednesday, knocking out Windows-based devices, including laptops and mobile phones, connected to Stryker’s systems.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/11/iran-linked-hackers-hit-medical-giant-stryker-in-retaliatory-cyberattack
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