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Canvas service strikes agreement with hackers to delete students’ stolen data
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The company that operates the online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers to delete the data they pilfered in a cyberattack that created chaos for students, many of them in the middle of finals.
Key facts
- A hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for last week’s breach, threatening to leak data involving nearly 9,000 schools worldwide and 275 million individuals if schools did not pay
- The data breach appeared to involve student ID numbers, email addresses, names and messages on the Canvas platform, Instructure’s chief information security officer, Steve Proud, said earlier
- Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said in an online post that it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident
- The company didn’t provide any details on the agreement, including whether it involved a payment, and didn’t elaborate who was behind the hack
Summary
Instructure, the parent company of Canvas, said in an online post that it “reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident”. The disruption caused panic last week among students and faculty members when they were locked out of a platform they rely on to manage grades and access course notes and assignments. The company didn’t provide any details on the agreement, including whether it involved a payment, and didn’t elaborate who was behind the hack. A hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for last week’s breach, threatening to leak data involving nearly 9,000 schools worldwide and 275 million individuals if schools did not pay a ransom by 6 May.