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ShinyHunters apparently isn't done with edutech giant Instructure.
Canvas experienced a data breach that continues to impact students, teachers and staff nationwide.
ShinyHunters, the extortion group that infiltrated cloud-based educational tech provider Instructure, claims to have stolen data from 8,809 schools around the world. Instructure is mostly known for Canvas,
The cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have hacked Instructure again, defacing the login pages of several Instructure customer schools with an extortion message.
Instructure, the parent company of the Canvas Learning Management System, a vendor to Mississippi State University and many other large universities and educational institutions, issued its first public statement regarding the Canvas security incident that has affected over 9,000 schools and 275 million records.
Access to Canvas was restored to Ohio State students May 8. Some personal data was stolen in the incident, according to Instructure, the vendor.
Instructure, which operates the online learning platform Canvas used globally, shut down Thursday due to a major cybersecurity breach, affecting potentially millions of students.
Canvas, an online learning and management system, was the victim of a series of breaches, according to the platform's parent company, Instructure.
A data breach of the parent company of Canvas Education experienced a global outage Thursday afternoon, but has since been fully restored.