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Instructure says it reached an agreement with the ShinyHunters hackers after a breach of the Canvas LMS; the stolen data has reportedly been returned and the company asserts that no customers will be extorted as a result of the incident, though it’s unclear if a ransom was paid. Instructure also says data destruction was verified, most systems are back online, and it will share more details in a forthcoming webinar.
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning platform, says it reached a deal with the hackers (ShinyHunters) responsible for a major breach, secured the stolen data back, and obtained digital proof that remaining copies were destroyed via shred logs. The incident compromised student IDs, email addresses, names and messages for thousands of schools and hundreds of millions of people, though no passwords or financial data were found. Canvas was taken offline during the investigation, and the company is conducting forensic work and hardening its systems while students faced finals-related disruptions.
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.