{"id":237116,"date":"2026-04-28T02:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T17:40:17","slug":"medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Medtronic Hack Confirmed After ShinyHunters Threatens Data Leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak\/\">Medtronic Hack Confirmed After ShinyHunters Threatens Data Leak<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak\/\">https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-28 02:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.securityweek.com\">www.securityweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Medical technology titan Medtronic has confirmed that its systems have been hacked after the notorious ShinyHunters group claimed to have stolen millions of records.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s largest medical technology companies, Medtronic provides a wide range of solutions, from pacemakers to surgical robots. It employs more than 95,000 people across 150 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d Medtronic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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\u2019 IT teams,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>The company has yet to confirm the theft of data, but says it\u2019s \u201cworking to identify any personal information that may have been accessed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ShinyHunters cybercrime group listed Medtronic on its leak website on April 17, claiming to have compromised more than 9 million records containing personal information, along with terabytes of corporate information.\u00a0The hackers gave the company until April 21 to pay a ransom, threatening to leak the stolen data.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Medtronic has since been removed from ShinyHunters\u2019 website, indicating that the organization may have paid a ransom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SecurityWeek has reached out to Medtronic for comment and will update this article if it responds.<\/p>\n<p>Medtronic\u2019s diabetes-focused subsidiary MiniMed submitted a report to the SEC, stating that its own IT systems have not been affected by the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Medtronic Recalls Medical Devices Due to Security Risks That Can Lead to Injury, Death<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Medical Device Maker UFP Technologies Hit by Cyberattack<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: Healthcare IT Platform CareCloud&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medtronic Hack Confirmed After ShinyHunters Threatens Data Leak https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/medtronic-hack-confirmed-after-shinyhunters-threatens-data-leak\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-28 02:35:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Medtronic.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237118,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237116\/revisions\/237118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}