Canvas owner reaches 'agreement' with hackers to secure stolen data
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management platform, says it has “reached an agreement” with hackers that breached its systems last week to prevent stolen data from being leaked online.
The ShinyHunters hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack before Canvas was briefly taken offline. The group threatened to publish 3.5 terabytes of student data if ransom demands for a “settlement” weren’t met. Now, Instructure says the stolen data has been returned as part of its unspecified “agreement” with the hackers, alongside a promise that “no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.”
“We un …