According to an internal memo obtained by ZDNet last week, the recent outage suffered by Canon was caused by a ransomware attack, at the same time Maze ransomware operators were taking the credit for the incident.
The memo also reveals that the company has hired an external security firm to investigate the incident.
The problem was first reported by Bleepingcomputer, which tracked a suspicious outage on Canon’s image.canon cloud photo and video storage service. According to the media outlet, the incident resulted in the loss of data for users of their free 10GB storage feature.
