Cyberattack on Canvas system causes chaos for students at thousands of . . . A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday during a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emisoft Instructure, the company
The Canvas Hack Is a New Kind of Ransomware Debacle Thousands of schools around the US were paralyzed on Thursday after education tech firm Instructure shut down access to its Canvas platform following a breach by hackers going by the name
BREAKING: Canvas hacked for a second time, student’s personal . . . The hacker group ShinyHunters hacked Canvas for a second time, claiming to have stolen more than 3 65TB of personal student data from over 9,000 schools The group said that if Instructure, the company that owns and operates Canvas, does not respond to their ransom demands by Tuesday all the data will be leaked publicly