Inside Higher Ed reports that recovery from the Canvas data breach encountered a glitch:
In the aftermath, Instructure CEO Steve Daly vowed to be “transparent about what happened” and provide K–12 schools and higher education institutions “with information as quickly as we responsibly could.” Over the past two months, Instructure has worked “to conduct a detailed forensic review of the data involved in this incident,” Daly said in a memo last week.
On Tuesday, the company was set to deliver to institutions the first wave of data related to the breach.
Instead, Daly said Tuesday that the company is “pausing data delivery out of an abundance of caution” after learning that “the third-party platform we’ve selected to deliver your data may have been subject to a security threat.” (In a previous memo, Instructure said institutions would receive the data “through a secure, permissioned ShareFile link sent directly from Sharefile only to the security contact(s) your institution has designated.”)
Read more at Inside Higher Ed.
