Pittsfield Schools warn of cybersecurity incident
- Thousands of educational institutions worldwide faced major disruptions during finals week after the learning management system Canvas suffered a cybersecurity breach, with attackers setting a May 12 deadline for ransom negotiations.
- Instructure, the company behind Canvas, temporarily took the platform offline after hackers exploited a vulnerability in its 'Free-for-Teacher' accounts, an incident linked to the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters.
- While Instructure reported that passwords and financial identifiers remained secure, attackers exposed names, email addresses, and student IDs from the platform serving more than 30 million users at 9,000 institutions.
- By Monday, major universities including the University of Sydney reported services were 'fully restored,' though the Australian Signals Directorate warned institutions against paying ransoms, citing 'no guarantee' of safety.
- The breach exposes risks of relying on centralized digital platforms for academic operations, prompting calls for stronger cybersecurity measures to protect student data against future extortion attempts.
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It is unclear whether Canvas paid money in exchange for the data.
Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers
Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.” Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by the education-technology
Thousands of schools faced a cyberattack across the U.S., a leak and subsequent attempt at extortion was the beginning of everything
CyberScoopcybernoz.comPressure mounts on Canvas as data leak extortion deadline looms
Pressure is mounting on Instructure, the company behind Canvas, as cybercriminals threaten to leak a trove of sensitive data they claim was stolen during a prolonged cyberattack on the widely used education tech platform.Widespread outages left schools, students and teachers temporarily unable to access critical data late last week after the company took Canvas offline following additional malicious activity, including a defacement of the platfo…
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