ByTim Keary,
Contributor.
Instructure, the parent company of the popular online education platform Canvas, this week announced it had paid hackers not to release data stolen during a ransomware attack.
According to the BBC, the Canvas attack affected an estimated 9,000 institutions in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. The incident is one of the largest educational security breaches on record.
During the breach, many educational institutions were unable to access the Canvas platform. The Harvard Crimson noted that students at Harvard temporarily lost access to Canvas last Thursday, with users redirected from the learning management platform to a message from a hacking group known as ShinyHunters.
