According to the Bleeping Computer magazine, operators of Maze ransomware attacked Canon, manufacturer of electronics and photographic equipment, and have stolen from the company 10TB of data.
The attack reportedly affected Canon email, Microsoft Teams, the company’s US website and other internal applications. Interestingly, the recent crash of the cloud storage image.canon, which resulted in users losing about 10 GB of information, did not appear to be related to the Maze attack.The image.canon website crashed on July 30, 2020 and the resource did not work for six days, returning to service only on August 4.
The official statement from Canon on this matter seemed rather strange to journalists, since it said that user data, unfortunately, was really lost, but there was no data leakage.
Later, their own anonymous source shared with the publication a screenshot of an in-house notification that Canon IT sent to employees.
The notice says the company is experiencing issues affecting a number of applications, Microsoft Teams, email and other systems that may be temporarily unavailable.
Due to this failure, problems are also observed in the operation of the following domains:
- www.canonusa.com
- www.canonbroadcast.com
- b2cweb.usa.canon.com
- canondv.com
- canobeam.com
- canoneos.com
- bjc8200.com
- canonhdec.com
- bjc8500.com
- usa.canon.com
- imagerunner.com
- multispot.com
- canoncamerashop.com
- canoncctv.com
- canonhelp.com
- bjc-8500.com
- canonbroadcast.com
- imageland.net
- consumer.usa.canon.com
- bjc-8200.com
- bjc3000.com
- downloadlibrary.usa.canon.com
- www.cusa.canon.com
- www.canondv.com
In addition, journalists had at their disposal a screenshot (unfortunately, magazine did not publish it), which supposedly shows an extortionist message, which the publication’s specialists identified as a ransom demand from the Maze ransomware.
Representatives of Bleeping Computer contacted Maze’s operators, and they said that they did attack Canon and on the morning of August 5 stole more than 10 terabytes of data from the company, including private databases.
However, we have nothing to do with the recent crash of image.canon”, – also said the hackers.
Maze’s operators refused to provide any further information about the attack or evidence of data theft.
Canon representatives have so far refrained from commenting and only reported that the company is already investigating an accident.
Recall that only recently we talked about the fact that Hack group Maze has published over 70 GB of data stolen from LG and Xerox. These companies refused to pay the ransom. Let’s see how will develop situation with Canon.
