The Guardian

Canvas hack: is it ever a good idea to pay a ransom, and what happens to the data?

Businesses are advised against paying – but many are prepared to deal to protect users’ privacy After a week of outages, hundreds of millions of students’ data stolen, delayed assignment due dates and ...
Sacramento State University

Canvas For Students

As Sacramento State's official Learning Management System (LMS), Canvas supports learning wherever you are! It's cloud-based, mobile-optimized, and allows you to access your coursework, submit ...
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 ...
CNN

Data stolen in Canvas hack that hit thousands of schools has been returned, company says

Data stolen in a cyberattack that shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US last week has been returned to the platform’s parent company, Instructure, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
CBC.ca

A cyberattack hit universities worldwide, including top Canadian schools. Here's what we know

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. At universities, ...
PBS

Canvas system used by thousands of schools is back online after a cyberattack created chaos

A system that thousands of schools and universities use to support instruction was back online Friday after it went down during a cyberattack that created chaos as students tried to study for final ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Data breach affects schools using Canvas; University of Illinois postpones final exams, assignments

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Universities and schools K-12 across the country, including the University of Illinois and Illinois State University, have been impacted by a massive data breach targeting a system ...
Krebs on Security

Canvas Breach Disrupts Schools & Colleges Nationwide

An ongoing data extortion attack targeting the widely-used education technology platform Canvas disrupted classes and coursework at school districts and universities across the United States today, ...