US lawmakers demand answers from Instructure after Canvas data breaches
U.S. House lawmakers are demanding representatives from Instructure, the twice-hacked education software maker, testify about the company’s response to cyberattacks that allowed hackers to steal the personal data of millions of students worldwide.
The House Homeland Security Committee is investigating the hacks and data breach as it has jurisdiction over government activities relating to homeland security, the committee’s chair, Representative Andrew Garbarino, wrote in a letter to Instructure chief executive Steve Daly. U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA has been called in to help with the incident.
The committee seeks Daly’s testimony to address how hackers repeatedly broke into Instructure’s systems, and to disclose the types of data that were taken, Garbarino said in the letter, which cites TechCrunch’s reporting. The letter also says lawmakers want to know how the company is responding to the attacks and notifying affected schools, and seek to examine the adequacy of its coordination with CISA.
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