Edtech Firm Instructure Discloses Data Breach Amid Hacker Leak Threats
Hackers disrupted services and stole names, email addresses, student ID numbers, and user messages. The post Edtech Firm Instructure Discloses Data Breach Amid Hacker Leak Threats appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Education technology company Instructure over the weekend scrambled to restore services affected by a cyberattack that also resulted in a data breach.
Based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the edtech firm is best known for Canvas, one of the most widely used learning platforms across educational institutions and other organizations.
Disclosed on April 30, the cyberattack was blamed for “disruption to tools relying on API keys” and was largely addressed by Sunday, May 3, when access to the Canvas Data 2 platform was restored.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/edtech-firm-instructure-discloses-data-breach/
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