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The Guardian

Canvas platform strikes deal with hackers to delete students’ stolen data

Hack of online learning system caused chaos for students and faculty last week, delaying some final exams The company that operates the online learning system Canvas said it struck a deal with hackers ...
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 ...
BBC

Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

The company behind the popular Canvas software, which was hacked last week causing major disruption at thousands of universities and colleges, has paid the hackers not to publish stolen data online.
Bleeping Computer

Instructure confirms hackers used Canvas flaw to deface portals

Education technology giant Instructure has confirmed that a security vulnerability allowed hackers to modify Canvas login portals and leave an extortion message. BleepingComputer has learned that both ...
Inside Higher Ed

Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers

Instructure has paid a ransom to a gang of cybercriminals that have twice hacked the company’s learning management system, Canvas, over the past week and a half. According to an update published by ...
TechSpot

A cyberattack on Canvas knocked out access for students at Harvard, Columbia, and hundreds of other schools during finals

In a nutshell: An outage on Canvas last week did more than interrupt logins. It exposed how much modern education depends on a single platform – and how vulnerable that platform can be when something ...
WBAL-TV

Maryland school districts, colleges shut down Canvas amid ransomware attack

KATE AMARA IS IN ELLICOTT CITY WITH FURTHER DETAILS. WHAT IS A HOWARD COUNTY MIDDLE SCHOOLER HAVE IN COMMON WITH A STUDENT AT HARVARD OR HOPKINS? THEY COULDN’T GET INTO CANVAS, AND SOME OF THEM STILL ...
Chicago Sun-Times

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

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WESH

Cyberattack disrupts Canvas learning platform across Central Florida schools

ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE BACK AT THE SPEEDWAY. LOCAL SCHOOL LEADERS ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT JUST HOW MUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE AFTER HACKERS INFILTRATED A LEARNING SYSTEM USED BY MOST CAMPUSES. HERE. A GROUP ...
U.S. News & World Report

A Canvas Outage Tied to a Cyberattack Has Wreaked Havoc on Colleges' Final Exam Season

A Canvas Outage Tied to a Cyberattack Has Wreaked Havoc on Colleges' Final Exam Season Schools and universities across the country are recovering from an outage that knocked down Canvas, an online ...
Hindustan Times

ShinyHunters Canvas breach: When will Canvas be back up? Expert gives advice to schools on list

Canvas by Instructure is reeling after hacker group ShinyHunters carried out a breach. Several users posted the message from the Blackhat group amid the reported outage. Canvas by Instructure suffered ...