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Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data
Provided by Instructure, an educational tech company in Utah, USA, Canvas
is a leading cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS). It facilitates
online learning through assignment submission, gradebooks, and discussions, and
is widely used by schools and universities to manage courses, grades, and
communication. Earlier this month, Canvas LMS was hacked and suffered a data
breach, including names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and messages
among users, affecting thousands of educational institutions and millions of learners
and educators. The impacts were significant, and some students were interrupted
in their work or exams, for example. On May 11, the LMS provider announced that
it reached an agreement and paid a ransom to the cyber criminal to save the stolen
3.6 terabytes of data. It is quite unusual for cybercrime victims to acknowledge
ransom payments, but the company tried to be transparent about how it had dealt
with the highly visible cyberattack. However, it is unclear if the data was actually
destroyed or copied for resale.
Read the article about the impact and settlement of a recent cybercrime
that affected schools, students, and teachers.
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