Iranian hacking group Handala claims that it has successfully attacked American medical technology company Stryker, resulting in the extraction of 50TB of data and the wiping of over 200,000 devices connected to the company, including personal devices owned by its employees. The Michigan-based firm is a Fortune 500 company that operates in 61 countries with 56,000 employees, and it serves 150 million patients annually. According to The Register, this would be the first major cyberattack connected to the ongoing U.S.-Israel-Iran war to directly hit a private company.
“We are continuing to resolve the disruption impacting our global network, resulting from the cyber attack (sic),” the company said in a statement. “At this time, there is no indication of malware or ransomware and we believe the situation is contained to our internet Microsoft environment only.”
