Stryker stock down, medical equipment maker’s systems defaced by cyber attack linked to pro-Iran hackers Handala

On Wednesday, the medtech company fell victim to a global outage, with its login pages defaced by the hacking group’s logo.

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Medical equipment maker Stryker was allegedly hit with an Iran-linked cyber attack on Wednesday right after midnight ET, causing a global outage across its system, with staff and contractors saying a logo of an Iran-linked group appeared on the login page, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news.

Shares of the Michigan-based global medical technology company (SYK) were down nearly 4% in early afternoon trading on Wednesday at the time of this writing.

According to the report, staff said cellphones, laptops, and other devices that run on Microsoft’s Windows operating system to connect ​to Stryker’s ​technology ⁠systems had been wiped.

Fast Company has reached out to Stryker for comment and further details.

The logo, which allegedly appeared on login pages, was for Handala, a pro-Iran and pro-Palestinian hacking group, the WSJ article reported.

On one Reddit thread, a user posted “My wife had 3 Stryker managed devices wiped around 3:30 AM EDT. Their Entra login page was defaced with the Handala logo, it’s still up as of this post.” On that same thread, another user replied “Yep! Woke up to wiped computer and phone, low key thought they finally fired me lol.”

Handala was also behind a breach of the Academy of the Hebrew Language’s website on Wednesday, according to The Jerusalem Post, which reported that the group posted the message, “There is no need to learn Hebrew anymore. You won’t need it for much longer.”

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