A cyberattack disrupted operations at Stryker's Belfast facility today. The medical technology company confirmed a severe global issue affecting laptops and network-connected systems.

Employee accounts worldwide, including those at bases in Belfast and Cork, became inaccessible this morning. Internal login and administration portals displayed the emblem of the Handala hacking collective, linked to Iran.

Workers reported erased device information and login failures. Stryker employs over 5,000 people in Ireland, with production at its Airport Road West site in Belfast starting in 1997.

The company operates six medical device research, development, and manufacturing plants in Cork. Recent milestones there include producing one million Triathlon knees and marking ten years of 3D printed cementless tibial baseplates.

Staff in Ireland, the United States, Australia, and India shared accounts of system failures on social media and technology forums.