Education technology company Instructure has confirmed it paid a ransom to hackers who breached its Canvas learning management system twice in less than two weeks, compromising data from 275 million users. Canvas is used by almost 9,000 schools ranging from grade schools to universities.
Inside Higher Ed reports that Instructure announced Monday night that it reached an agreement with the cybercriminal group “ShinyHunters,” which had infiltrated the company’s widely-used Canvas learning management system on two separate occasions this month. The ransom payment, whose exact monetary value was not disclosed, secured the return of compromised…
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