Pro-Iran hacking group claims responsibility for cyberattack on Stryker
Stryker, a medical technology company that makes a variety of products, including surgical tools and medical implants, announced Wednesday that it was hit by a cyberattack.
And while the company has provided few details about the extent of the attack, a pro-Iran hacking group, Handala, is claiming responsibility, saying in a post on X that it executed the cyberattack "in retaliation" for the ongoing war in the region.
The hacking group claimed that in the cyberattack, "over 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices have been wiped and 50 terabytes of critical data have been extracted."
Stryker, the Kalamazoo, Michigan-based company, said in a statement Wednesday that it has "no indication of ransomware or malware and believe the incident is contained."
The company did note that it was "experiencing a global network disruption to our Microsoft environment."
"Our teams are working rapidly to understand the impact of the attack on our systems," Stryker said.
The company did not provide further details but assured "continuity measures in place to continue to support our customers and partners."
The hacking group claimed in its statement that the deadly strike on a girls' elementary school in Iran was in part the motivation behind the cyberattack.
The group posted that the attack was "in retaliation for the brutal attack on the Minab school and in response to ongoing cyber assaults against the infrastructure."
Local officials say 168 people were killed in a Feb. 28 strike, in which several buildings connected to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were destroyed along with a nearby building housing a school for girls.
It has not been determined who was behind the strike, though the U.S. military was striking targets in Iran in the area near the school, people familiar with the findings told ABC News. An investigation is ongoing.
U.S. officials have not immediately commented on the cyberattack.
ABC News' Mason Leath and Victor Ordonez contributed to this report.
