US medical equipment provider Stryker said its global networks were disrupted by a cyberattack on Wednesday, allegedly carried out by a hacking group linked to Iran. The attack impacted Stryker’s internal Microsoft environment and deleted information from devices, with one employee telling NBC News that company phones stopped working, grinding work and communications to a standstill.
In an SEC filing disclosing the attack, Stryker says the “full scope” of the operational and financial impact on its business “are not yet known,” and that it’s unable to provide a full restoration timeline. The situation was still ongoing as of 12:32AM ET on Thursday, when Stryker said that it was working to bring its systems back online as quickly as possible.
Apparently all of EPIC was down for the whole country.
I have a procedure scheduled for today and had to be here at 8am. The entire hospital was already having to check in by writing their name on a piece of paper, and the registration area looks like a fucking airport full of people who had their flights delayed or cancelled.
Once again, for what feels like the millionth fucking time since Jan 20, 2025, Trump has somehow managed to simultaneously fuck over the entire country in the most bizarrely personal yet impersonal way. This is literally just waiting to get checked in to go to the floor where you’re scheduled to be.
Because American healthcare really just didn’t feel dystopian enough.
Apparently all of EPIC was down for the whole country.
Health plan cyber threat intelligence chiming in—I couldn’t verify this claim. Epic’s EHR was unaffected unless the provider/hospital’s connection was handled by an affected Stryker “network bridge” (quotes because I’m not totally certain of the architecture here).
EDIT: But this was the first I heard of Epic being impacted, which is valuable intel. Thank you, and hope you feel better!
EDIT 2: Best I can tell, Stryker’s relationship to Epic is that it’s a data source for a few things that may be relayed to Epic, not any kind of network backbone. Stryker supports a lot of surgical equipment, so maybe that’s why folks like you getting a procedure are being paper charted.
Good to know it’s not the whole country. That’s what the staff was saying, but it seems like nobody knows wtf is actually going on here.
I do know the hospital is part of one giant monopoly, so I would guess it’s was at least down for the majority of Hospitals in Louisiana that aren’t Oschner. It came back up around 9.
I finally got “checked in” from registration and got to “check in” again in the waiting room and wait some more.
Shit is so cattywhompus they are seriously having the nurses validate parking!
It’s my job to know what’s going on and even I don’t know!
Seems wild that they’re validating parking like that. Either the hospital is crazy overreliant on Stryker systems, or their IT department has a stupidly restrictive “ransomware event” playbook that they’re following to their own peril.
Sorry, just saw your edit. Their entire system was down.
Normally you come in and scan your ID at a desk before registration, but they couldn’t even do that. They weren’t paper charting, they were just taking a list of names like on several blank pieces of computer paper to keep track bc even the kiosks where you just put in that you’ve arrived were down too. It was wild.
Idk if it’s just every piece of medical equipment relies on striker or what, but they were dead in the water and had apparently been that way since like 6 am.
The bully is getting rocks thrown at it.