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2020 Canon — ransomware outage with Maze-era criminal claims

2020 Unknown records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Internal corporate communications and potentially operational file systems referenced in press

Technical writeup

Canon corporate email and internal systems outages coincided with ransomware leak-site claims reported by trade press; Canon entities issued customer-facing communications about service restoration.

Root cause

Ransomware / criminal extortion (per contemporaneous reporting)

References