Instructure Pays Ransom, Restores Canvas Access After Hackers
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Instructure paid a ransom to the ShinyHunters gang after Canvas was breached twice, returning data for about 275 million users across 8,800 institutions and promising no extortion of customers. The monetary amount wasn’t disclosed, the deal arrived before a May 12 deadline, and Canvas environments are back online as investigators continue forensic work and security hardening.
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