Overview
- Stryker confirms a severe outage in its Windows environment disrupting operations across the U.S., Europe and Asia.
- Thousands of employees are unable to work, with major impacts reported at the company’s Cork and Belfast sites.
- Multiple reports describe a destructive wiper that erased data on corporate laptops and some personal phones with work profiles.
- Internal portals were reportedly defaced with Handala’s emblem, and the group has claimed responsibility as formal attribution remains under investigation.
- Stryker says the root cause is still unknown, it is treating the incident as critical, and Ireland’s National Cyber Security Centre has been notified.