Instructure reaches agreement with hacker group after Canvas cybersecurity breach

Instructure, the parent company of the Canvas learning management system, has reached an agreement with ShinyHunters, the hacker group responsible for the recent cybersecurity breach of Canvas. Instructure said that the affected data was returned and ShinyHunters asserted that it had deleted its copies of the data and will not further target or contact Instructure or its customers. K-12 Dive reports that Instructure appears to have paid an undisclosed sum, and that cybersecurity experts say that agreements with cybercriminals cannot guarantee the deletion of data.