Earlier this month, a group called ShinyHunters took responsibility for a hack on the education platform Canvas, which is used for coursework at colleges. In a letter posted online, the group threatened to leak data it took from the platform, including billions of private messages between students and teachers. Canvas was also temporarily unavailable, disrupting students’ ability to do their work.Then, last week, Instructure, which makes Canvas, said it had reached a deal with the hackers, that the data had been returned and all copies destroyed. Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes asked Rachel Tobac, CEO at SocialProof Security, what we know about the deal.More on this“AT&T Paid a Hacker $370,000 to Delete Stolen Phone Records” from Wired“Hacking group claims it breached Ticketmaster and stole data for 560 million customers” from CBS News“The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft” from Krebs on Security
What we learned from the Canvas hack
Rachel Tobac, CEO of SocialProof Security, explains the implications of Instructure’s newly-struck deal with the hackers.








