March 11 (UPI) -- Medical device maker Stryker is experiencing a global tech issue Wednesday from a cyberattack by a group of pro-Iranian hackers.
Employees found their work devices locked up with the symbol of the hacker group Handala displayed on their screens. It is being described as a "wiper attack," not meant to extort money but to cause maximum damage to Stryker's systems.
Handala has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack in a social media post, writing that it is retaliation for the deadly strike on the Shajareh Tayyiba girls school in Minab, Iran.
"We announce to the world that, in retaliation for the brutal attack on the Minab school school and in response to ongoing cyber assaults against the infrastructure of the Axis of Resistance," the post reads. "In this operation, over 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices have been wiped and 50 terabytes of critical data have been extracted."
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