The American company behind education platform Canvas has reached an agreement with the hackers who managed to penetrate the software last week. This means that the stolen data has been returned to the company Instructure and all data that the hackers managed to obtain has been destroyed by them. The company does not report whether and, if so, how much ransom was involved in the agreement.
Source: ANP
Canvas has more than 30 million users worldwide and is also used in our country by at least eight universities and colleges for contact between students and teachers, among other things. “We understand how disturbing situations like this can be and our security is our top priority,” the company wrote in a statement on Monday night. CEO Steve Daly also apologizes for the situation that has arisen.
Instructure previously reported that names, email addresses, student numbers and messages between users had been stolen. “Although there is never complete certainty with cyber criminals, we felt it was important to take all possible measures to offer our customers as much additional security as possible,” the company writes about the decision to enter into an agreement with the hackers.
The hack was claimed by ShinyHunters, the hacker group that was also behind the cyber attack on Dutch telecom provider Odido earlier this year.
Affected universities themselves have not been approached by the hacking group to pay the ransom. Instructure emphasizes that this is not necessary, the agreement concluded by the company “includes all customers who experienced an impact”.
