Company Owning Canvas Says It Reached Agreement with Hackers
Instructure said the stolen data was returned and no customers will be extorted after the Canvas breach affected nearly 9,000 institutions.
- Instructure confirmed an agreement with ShinyHunters regarding the recent data breach, ensuring accessed data has been returned and will not be used for extortion.
- Exploiting a vulnerability in Free for Teacher accounts, the attack impacted almost 9,000 schools and universities globally, with hackers threatening to leak student data by May 12.
- The University of Central Florida, Valencia College, and Orange County Public Schools confirmed they use Canvas, which stores student IDs, emails, and enrollment information.
- Instructure Chief Executive Steve Daly apologized for the breach and communication failures, stating the company "got the balance wrong" by delaying public updates.
- While the agreement resolves extortion concerns, Instructure continues working with cybersecurity experts on forensic analysis and has temporarily disabled affected accounts to strengthen system security.
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The hacker group Shinyhunters threatened to leak data from the University of Gothenburg and other universities around the world if they did not make a deal. Now, the company behind the learning platform Canvas has reached an agreement with the group.
The company behind the hacked service “has reached an agreement with” the extortionists.
The parent company of the hacked learning platform Canvas has reached an agreement with hackers from the group ShinyHunters. This is reported by American and Dutch media. According to the company Instructure, the hackers have provided proof that they have "deleted the stolen data." Whether a ransom was also paid is not being disclosed.
The American company behind the educational platform Canvas has reached an agreement with the hackers who managed to infiltrate the software last week. This means that the stolen data has been returned to the company Instructure and all data the hackers managed to extract has been destroyed by them. The company does not disclose whether, and if so how much, ransom was involved in the agreement.
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