Instructure Reaches Deal with Hackers; Iowa Universities Resume Canvas Use

Instructure reaches deal with hackers; Iowa universities resume Canvas use

A week after schools nationwide learned their student data had been breached via cyberattack on Instructure, the tech company Monday said it’s “reached an agreement” with hackers.

The Canvas breach proved that prevention is no longer enough

Earlier this month, ShinyHunters breached Instructure’s Canvas platform twice within a single week — stealing 3.65 terabytes of data from approximately 275 million users across more than 8,000 institutions. The group defaced login pages at hundreds of schools during final exam periods, forced Canvas offline, and extracted a ransom payment before Congress opened a formal investigation. The attack did not require exotic malware or zero-day exploit…

No, Colleges Can’t Just Quit Canvas

Even before this month’s hack, some in higher ed were feeling boxed in by their LMS. But moving to a new way of delivering and managing courses is much easier said than done. In the span of two weeks, a massive data breach poisoned the reputation of higher education’s dominant learning management system, Canvas.

The Instructure Canvas Data Breach Is the Cybersecurity Story That Higher Education Has Been Dreading

For many who have observed over the past fifteen years as higher education gradually shifts every aspect of academic life onto a small number of software platforms, the Instructure hack was the dreaded continuation of a long-standing discussion. Universities don’t use Canvas as a tool. It is becoming more and more the actual location of the university. lectures and homework. Assign grades to submissions. messages during office hours. The night b…

Canvas hack shows growing cyber risk in higher ed

Hacking group ShinyHunters took credit for the data breach that affected the Instructure-owned Canvas learning management system.

No Canvas data leaked in Instructure breach, College and Instructure say

Dartmouth has received "no information to suggest that Canvas usage poses any additional security risk at this time," College spokesperson Jana Barnello wrote in a May 13 email statement to The Dartmouth on behalf of the Information, Technology and Consulting office. Students at nearly 9,000 colleges and universities lost access to Canvas after the breach on May 7, when criminal hacker and extortion group ShinyHunters breached Infrastructure, Ca…