There has been yet another development in the hack-and-leak attack on edtech giant Instructure, which was targeted by the ShinyHunters gang in April. When Instructure didn’t pay the gang’s ransom demands to delete the data, ShinyHunters attacked them again, defacing Canvas login pages with a note from ShinyHunters to schools. CNN reports:
An apparent cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials – at a time when many are taking or prepping for final exams.
Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms, has more than 30 million active users globally, with more than 8,000 institutions as customers, parent company Instructure says on its website.
Large public school systems and top universities like Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and Georgetown reported a ransom note signed by a hacking group had appeared on the homepage of their schools’ Canvas sites Thursday.
By late Thursday night, Instructure had announced Canvas was available again “for most users,” but a number of schools had already extended deadlines and shuffled finals schedules because of the hack.
Read more at CNN.
