New Delhi, March 11 -- Hours after United States medical technology giant Stryker, a hacking group linked to Iran claimed responsibility of it and said it had erased 200,000 systems and extracted 50 terabytes of data. The hacking group said that the cyberattack was done in retaliation to the military attacks on Iran.

In a statement, Handala also referred to the US missile attack on a girls' school in Minab city of the Middle East country, killing dozens as one of the reasons for the hacking.

"The Zionist-rooted corporation, Stryker, one of the key arms of the global Zionist lobby and a central ring in the 'New Epstein' chain, has been struck with an unprecedented blow. In this operation, over 20 000 systems, servers, and mobile devices ...