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<\/p>\nAll IT systems at Stryker, which employs 4,000 people in its Cork base, remain down.<\/p>\n
12:46, 11 Mar 2026Updated 13:27, 11 Mar 2026<\/p>\n
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Stryker facility in Cork<\/p>\n
An Iranian-backed hacker group is believed to be behind a sophisticated cyber attack<\/a> that has crippled a US medical technology company’s global operations, that has left thousands of Irish employees unable to work.<\/p>\n All IT systems at Stryker, which employs 4,000 people in its Cork base<\/a>, remain down.<\/p>\n The attack is understood to have happened overnight and has affected all of the company’s operations in Europe, Asia<\/a>, and the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n Most work devices, including personal phones that had a Stryker work profile, have been wiped by cybercriminals, The Irish Mirror understands.<\/p>\n In a message to staff based in Cork, Stryker said: “We are experiencing a severe, global disruption impacting all Stryker laptops and systems that connect to our network.”<\/p>\n In a separate update sent to colleagues in Asia, Stryker wrote: “At this time, the root cause has not yet been identified. We are actively engaged with Microsoft <\/a>and treating this a critical, enterprise-wide incident.”<\/p>\n The Irish Mirror <\/a>understands many suspect the most likely culprit for the attack is Handala, a pro-Palestinian Iranian<\/a>-backed hacker group.<\/p>\n The group has previously attacked companies based in Israel.<\/p>\n A source said: “Nobody can work. The entire company has been brought to a standstill. Nobody has any idea what is going on. This is going to have a huge knock-on effect.”<\/p>\n Around the world, Stryker operates in 61 countries and has more than 56,000 employees. Its Cork base is the biggest site outside of the US.<\/p>\n The Irish Mirror contacted the Gardai <\/a>and Stryker for comment.<\/p>\n Want to see more of the stories you love from the Irish Mirror? Making us your preferred source on Google<\/a> means you\u2019ll get more of our exclusives, top stories and must-read content straight away. To add Irish Mirror as a preferred source, simply click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All IT systems at Stryker, which employs 4,000 people in its Cork base, remain down. 12:46, 11 Mar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[576,72,46,3312,7782,61,11829,60,1071,812],"class_list":["post-340692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-cork","tag-cybersecurity","tag-gardai","tag-ie","tag-iran","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}