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Developing: ShinyHunters Hacks Instructure Again; Canvas Down
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Developing: ShinyHunters Hacks Instructure Again; Canvas Down
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: mashable.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: mashable.com
- Instructure experienced two cyberattacks by ShinyHunters in two weeks, compromising data from 275 million users of the Canvas platform.
- The breaches caused repeated outages during finals week, forcing multiple schools to reschedule exams and assignments.
- An agreement was made ensuring the hackers returned and deleted the stolen data and pledged not to extort individual customers.
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While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible.— Statement by Steve Daly, Instructure's CEO, posted on the company's website.
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