Debris from interception strikes Oracle building in Dubai, UAE says
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US tech giant Oracle’s office in Dubai was damaged by falling debris as Iran continued firing projectiles at targets in the Middle East in retaliation for US and Israeli attacks, the city’s media office said on Sunday.
“Authorities have confirmed that they responded to a minor incident caused by aerial debris falling on the façade of the Oracle building in Dubai Internet City,” Dubai Media Office said. in question The media office said in a post on X that no one was injured in the incident.
Oracle did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment by CNBC.
A CNBC journalist in Dubai reported hearing multiple tapping sounds throughout the night.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard threatens attack A group of US technology companies operating in the Middle East, including Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Google.
The Guard warned on Tuesday that 18 technology companies would be considered “legitimate targets” in retaliation for US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
“From now on, with every assassination, an American company will be destroyed,” they said in a Telegram channel affiliated with the Guard.
The list of companies also included Cisco, HP, Intel, IBM, Dell, Palantir, JPMorgan, Tesla, GE, Spire Solutions, Boeing and UAE-based artificial intelligence company G42.
James Henderson, CEO of risk management firm Healix, said the increase in threats to technology companies did not occur suddenly but was a continuing pattern.
“Technology assets are now seen as part of the conflict, not as an insignificant part of it,” Henderson told CNBC.
“This also signals that future crises may target data centers and cloud platforms as much as traditional strategic sites,” he added.
Iran struck Amazon Web Services data centers in the Middle East in early March, causing outages to a number of applications and digital services in the United Arab Emirates.
