Government to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach
The Committee on Homeland Security has requested to be briefed on the incident and Instructure’s remediation steps. The post Government to Scrutinize Instructure Over Canvas Disruption, Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The US House Committee on Homeland Security has asked Instructure to provide details on the recent cyberattacks that disrupted its broadly used online learning system Canvas.
An initial intrusion on April 29 was blamed for the disruption of tools relying on API keys. The education technology company restored the services by May 3, but took them offline again on May 7, after the hackers returned and defaced school login portals.
The attack was claimed by the notorious extortion group ShinyHunters, which allegedly stole 3.65 terabytes of data, including the personal information of 275 million students, teachers, and other individuals at approximately 9,000 education institutions.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/government-to-scrutinize-instructure-on-canvas-disruption-data-breach/
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