{"id":936,"date":"2026-03-11T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=936"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:07:40","slug":"iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hacktivist group with links to Iran\u2019s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against&nbsp;<strong>Stryker<\/strong>, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker\u2019s largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile, a voicemail message at Stryker\u2019s main U.S. headquarters says the company is currently experiencing a building emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Stryker [NYSE:SYK] is a medical and surgical equipment maker that reported $25 billion in global sales last year. In a lengthy statement posted to Telegram, a hacktivist group known as&nbsp;<strong>Handala<\/strong>&nbsp;(a.k.a. Handala Hack Team) claimed that Stryker\u2019s offices in 79 countries have been forced to shut down after the group erased data from more than 200,000 systems, servers and mobile devices.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/03\/iran-backed-hackers-claim-wiper-attack-on-medtech-firm-stryker\/\">Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker \u2013 Krebs on Security<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacktivist group with links to Iran\u2019s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against&nbsp;Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker\u2019s largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today. Meanwhile,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[72,15],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability","tag-72","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}