Tens of thousands of employee devices were remotely erased by last week’s cyberattack on medical technology major Stryker, which was restricted to its internal Microsoft environment.
All of the company’s medical devices are safe to use, according to an update released on Sunday. However, consumers must still place orders manually through sales reps because computerized purchasing systems are still out. Stryker stresses that the threat actor did not install any malware on its systems and that the event was not a ransomware attack.
The Handala hacktivist organization, which is thought to be connected to Iran, said that Stryker was the victim of a cyberattack last week. The attacker claimed to have stolen 50 gigabytes of data and erased over 200,000 computers, servers, and mobile devices. Investigators did not discover any evidence of data exfiltration, though.
Employees at Stryker throughout several nations began to voice concerns after the outage read more about Stryker attack wiped tens of thousands of devices no malware needed.
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