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My only knowledge of this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances.

I guess they have some sensitive data on our emergency services organizations and their headquarters addresses and accounts payable people, maybe PII on signatories (officers, board members & “important people”) and whatnot.

Anyone know if it would be worse?

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>My only knowledge this company is as a manufacturer of gurneys for ambulances.

they have a tremendous catalog[0].

spend time in a hospital, dental office, rehab, etc and you'll see the logo plastered across everything.

[0]: https://www.stryker.com/us/en/portfolios/medical-surgical-eq...

yeah that is a lot of tech, but it’s all B2B- no consumer breach, right?

Probably worse in the boring B2B way, not the consumer-breach way. Stryker is deep in hospital operations, so the immediate risk is supply chain and support disruption rather than leaked patient data. The Krebs post says one hospital system already could not order surgical supplies, and if the Intune remote wipe detail is true, recovering internal devices and admin workflows could take a while even without any medical devices themselves being compromised.

so maybe more hospitals shutdown from ransomware attacks coming?

That second B has alot of customers. Sick and dying customers that arent very flexible on demand

sure no consumer data breach... but this is still going to shutdown or impact lots of medical facilities.

heart rate monitors that go down and no one can get support for, cannot get replacement CAT scan equipment, etc.

This is not true. The hack did not affect Stryker products sold to hospitals and clinics, it only impacted Stryker employees work and personal devices. Yes 50tb of data was exfiltrated and it remains to be seen what that data is and how it might impact products down the line.

Medical equipment reps often play a pretty active role in patient care. Can't get in touch with a rep to put a device into its MRI safe mode? No MRI for you. Can't get a rep in to help the surgeon with the type in hardware they were going to install? No surgery for you.

People's AICDs aren't going to start exploding, but I'm pretty confident this will hamper care for many patients.

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