Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system used by over 8,800 institutions worldwide, paid an undisclosed ransom to the hacking group ShinyHunters after two successive breaches exposed approximately 275 million student and staff records. The payment — made in exchange for "digital confirmation of data destruction" — has drawn criticism from cybersecurity experts who say deletion guarantees from criminal actors are unreliable, and from lawmakers who are demanding answers about Instructure's incident response failures.