Stryker Corp. announced April 1 that it had restored full operation across its manufacturing network three weeks after a cyber attack affected its commercial, ordering and distribution systems. The medical equipment company said it would continue to work with third-party cybersecurity experts and government officials as it continues to investigate the attack. The attack has been connected to Hamsa, a hacking group connected to Iran.
The all-clear announcement followed the March 23 discovery that the attackers had used a “malicious file” to conceal the intrusion. In a statement at the time, Stryker said the file was not capable of spreading and did not pose a continued risk to the company or its clients’ networks.
The company confirmed March 19 that the incident was contained to the company’s own networks and did not affect its medical products, which include connected products. Stryker assured clients its Balance ACS, a program used by surgeons for planning, scheduling, modelling, and post-operative monitoring surgical procedures, was secure and does not communicate with company servers in a way that could have compromised patient data.
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