Canvas Hack Aftermath: Owner Instructure Reaches Deal With Hacker Group

Students are finally getting some good news during finals season: The personal data stolen during the Canvas hack has been secured, according to service owner Instructure.

The company confirmed that it reached an agreement with the hacker group ShinyHunters to destroy illicit copies of user data and prevent extortion of Canvas customers. It remains unclear whether this agreement included ransom payment for the hackers. The stolen data included "information like usernames, email addresses, course names, enrollment information and messages."

Instructure said "there is never complete certainty when dealing with cybercriminals," but the company states that it received digital confirmation that the stolen data had been deleted by the hackers, in the form of shred logs.

Instructure cautioned affected Canvas users against individual attempts to contact or bargain with the ShinyHunters group, saying its agreement "covers all impacted Instructure customers."

The hacker group first infiltrated Canvas systemson April 29,...

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