In August 2020, Canon USA fell victim to a massive ransomware attack. At that time, 10 terabytes of data were said to have been copied, including emails, data from the Canon USA website and internal applications. According to media reports, the American company now wants to compensate the employees who were victims of the attack at the time. This is reported by Bloomberg Law in a Message from Friday. Accordingly, the company has agreed to pay each affected employee up to $7,500 for financial losses and $300 for expenses. This emerges from a settlement proposal that had been submitted to the Federal Supreme Court.
class action lawsuit filed
A total of nine named plaintiffs have filed a class action lawsuit over the security incident. The allegation: Canon failed to encrypt their personal data or take appropriate protective measures, according to Bloomberg Law.
According to reports numerous Canon USA websites were temporarily unavailable after the 2020 attack. In November of the same year confirmed canonthat a “significant amount” of his employees’ personal information had fallen into the wrong hands, including social security numbers, driver’s license numbers and bank accounts. The data theft allegedly affected all Canon employees employed from 2005 to the time of the attack in 2020, and also included e-signatures and dates of birth.
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