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

Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning platform, paid hackers to delete stolen student data after a cyberattack affected 9,000 institutions across four countries. The Shiny Hunters group claimed to have obtained 3.5 terabytes of information and threatened publication. Paying ransoms contradicts law enforcement guidance and offers no guarantee data deletion occurred.

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