Medtronic Hack Confirmed After ShinyHunters Threatens Data Leak

Medical know-how titan Medtronic has confirmed that its techniques have been hacked after the infamous ShinyHunters group claimed to have stolen tens of millions of data.

One of the world’s largest medical know-how firms, Medtronic offers a variety of options, from pacemakers to surgical robots. It employs greater than 95,000 folks throughout 150 nations.

“We have not identified any impact to our products, patient safety, connections to our customers, our manufacturing and distribution operations, our financial reporting systems or our ability to meet patient needs,” Medtronic said.

“The networks that support our corporate IT systems, our products and our manufacturing and distribution operations are separate. Hospital customer networks remain separate from Medtronic IT networks and are secured and managed by customers’ IT teams,” it added.

The firm has but to substantiate the theft of information, however says it is “working to identify any personal information that may have been accessed.”

The ShinyHunters cybercrime group listed Medtronic on its leak web site on April 17, claiming to have compromised greater than 9 million data containing private data, together with terabytes of company data. The hackers gave the corporate till April 21 to pay a ransom, threatening to leak the stolen information.

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Medtronic has since been faraway from ShinyHunters’ web site, indicating that the group might have paid a ransom.

SecurityWeek has reached out to Medtronic for remark and can replace this text if it responds.

Medtronic’s diabetes-focused subsidiary MiniMed submitted a report back to the SEC, stating that its personal IT techniques haven’t been affected by the incident.