Instructure did not say what it had given the hacker group in exchange for the terms.
Instructure, the parent company behind Canvas, the education management platform reportedly hacked by ShinyHunters, has reached an agreement with the cyber gang, it said yesterday (11 May). Hackers had given affected universities until tomorrow (12 May) to negotiate a settlement.
As per the agreement, the cyber extortion group has returned stolen data and deleted copies, and has agreed not to extort the institutions affected in the hack, Instructure said. The company did not say what it had given the hacker group in exchange for the terms.
Reportedly formed around 2020, ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for an array of high-profile, financially motivated attacks in recent years on organisations such as Salesforce, Allianz Life, SoundCloud, Ticketmaster and Tinder-parent Match Group.
The group was linked to a breach of the European Commission’s Europa.eu platform in March, where 350GB of data, across multiple databases, was reportedly accessed and stolen.
