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Hello. Medical-products maker Stryker continues to deal with tech and operations outages—a global disruption to its Microsoft environment—after a cyberattack Wednesday linked to Iran.
On Thursday, CISO Dave Nathans updated certain customers about the situation, with word that order processing, manufacturing and shipping are interrupted, according to a company filing that day with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Stryker has manufacturing sites across the U.S. and in China, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and Turkey.
“While the Company is working diligently to restore affected functions and systems access, the timeline for a full restoration is not yet known,” Stryker said in an earlier filing.
In multiple updates on its website, Stryker has sought to reassure doctors and hospitals that its connected products, such as critical-care beds to guard against patient falls and a cloud-based system that transfers patient data, are safe to use.
Stryker said it hasn’t found ransomware or malware in its systems and believes the incident has been “contained.” Some employees had their phones and laptops wiped, as we reported Wednesday. The company is working with outside cybersecurity experts, law enforcement and a firm that specializes in communications after a cybersecurity problem.
Stryker shares have dropped about 4% since the cyberattack was disclosed.
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