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Instructure Pays ShinyHunters Ransom to Protect 275 Million Canvas Users’ Private Data

The company said it received "digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs)" and assurances that no customers would face further extortion. Cybersecurity professionals warn that paying ransoms ...
The Weekly Times

Canvas owner strikes deal with hackers after global education data breach affecting Australian universities

Instructure, which owns the widely used online education system, revealed early Wednesday it had “reached an agreement with the unauthorised actor” who stole vast quantities of student and staff ...
Boston Herald

Deal reached with hackers to delete data stolen from the Canvas educational platform

The company that operates 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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

U. of I. reschedules finals after learning platform Canvas reaches deal with hackers

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The New York Times

Maker of Canvas Learning Platform Strikes Deal for Hackers to Return Data

Instructure, which provides Canvas software to thousands of schools and universities around the world, did not say what it had given the hackers in exchange for the stolen data. By Qasim Nauman The ...
Washington Times

Instructure, company behind Canvas learning platform, reaches deal with hackers to recover data

Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system, said Monday it reached an agreement with hackers to recover recently stolen data. Instructure said it convinced the “unauthorized ...
The Straits Times

Canvas cyberattack: NUS, SIM, NTUC LearningHub ask users to reset passwords as added precaution

SINGAPORE – The National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) and NTUC LearningHub have asked their users to reset their passwords as an added precaution following a ...
The Straits Times

Students’ names, IDs ‘may have been exposed’ in Canvas cyberattack but passwords, marks safe: NUS

SINGAPORE – The National University of Singapore (NUS) has informed its students that while some information such as their names and e-mail addresses may have been exposed in a global data breach, ...
manilatimes

Canvas system is online after a cyberattack disrupted thousands of schools

UNITED STATES — Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack knocked it offline, throwing schools ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Canvas hack leads U. of I. to postpone finals, schools scramble without popular learning tool

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Boston Herald

Canvas system is online after a cyberattack disrupted thousands of schools

Tens of thousands of students studying for final exams around the world Friday regained access to a key online learning system after a cyberattack had earlier knocked it offline, throwing schools and ...
IBTimes UK

Canvas Hacked By ShinyHunters: Are Your Private Messages Now Exposed In The Dark Web?

The cyberattack on Canvas has been linked to the hacking group ShinyHunters, which reportedly left ransom demands on affected university systems. (Stock photo) Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels Universities ...