Canon is still investigating the incident but Maze ransomware group is reportedly boasting about breaking into Canon’s cyberinfrastructure.
About a week ago, Canon the camera maker found out that its cloud storage at image.canon had a glitch which was resulting in the loss of some of the user data uploaded to the service prior to June 16, 2020. Reacting to this discovery, the company suspended the service and restored it back on 4 August.
Although Canon’s statement on the other hand was that some of the images and videos have been lost, there has been no data leak. Even so, a few days later, another incident not so good for the firm occurred.
See: White hat hackers infect Canon DSLR camera with ransomware
The ordeal started when a company-wide notice was sent at 6 AM yesterday on 5 August from Canon’s IT department stating the unavailability of many services due to an unidentified issue.
Screenshot of the message from Canon’s IT service center
This for the public also resulted in the unavailability of a number of their websites including the main USA site which displays the following note for visitors currently:
However, it turns out this is more than just an unavailability issue. According to a report by BleepingComputer, it is believed that the firm suffered a ransomware attack by ..
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