On Maze’s data leak site, the ransomware operators published a portion of the Canon’s stolen data during the attack.
A portion of Canon’s stolen data was exposed online by Maze ransomware group.
On Maze’s data leak site, the ransomware operators published a portion of the Canon’s stolen data during the attack.
Canon, the Japanese multinational company suffered a ransomware attack on July 30th 2020 that lasted until August 4th but managed to restore most of it's services relatively in a short time, leading to speculation the firm had paid the ransom. At the time company only confirmed on a problem related to “10TB of data storage.”
Now the Maze operators have published unencrypted files allegedly stolen during the ransomware attack.
When the portion of the Canon’s stolen data was exposed online, it appears the firm has refused to compromise with the attackers.
The published file is a 2.2GB archive called “STRATEGICPLANNINGpart62.zip” that contain 5% of the total amount of stolen documents. The archive contains files related to Canon’s website and marketing materials. A Source said that it did not provide any financial information, employee information, or other sensitive data.
According to BleepingComputer, these files belong to Canon USA. Canon has not responded about the exposure of data by Maze ransomware.
Maze ransomware
During the past few months, Maze Ransomware gang were very active. The main goal of the Maze ransomware is to steal valuable company data before disrupting their systems. Later they threaten the victims to pay the ransom to avoid their data being leaked online.
Maze ransomware operators recently published the internal data of LG and Xerox as the company did not pay the ransom.
Maze ransomware have also stolen data from US military contractor Westech and the ST Engineering group.
Us chipmaker MaxLiner and Threadstone advisors LLP suffered a data breach in the past months.
Maze Ransomware gang were behind the attack of IT firms Cognizant and Conduent.
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