Cyberattacks on widely used third-party services like Canvas can expose sensitive data that hackers can later weaponize. Higher education institutions are often a prime target.

Cyberattacks on widely used third-party services like Canvas can expose sensitive data that hackers can later weaponize. Higher education institutions are often a prime target.

A cyberattack against one of the world’s largest digital education platforms has forced attention onto the vulnerability of U.S. schools’ data. ...

The company behind Canvas says it has "reached an agreement" with the hackers who disrupted thousands of colleges and universities.

The parent company of Canvas, used by thousands of schools and universities, said it has made a deal with hackers to return the data.

The Canvas ransomware attack highlights that threat actors will target digital platforms to gain access to downstream systems.

U.S. House lawmakers want to know how hackers broke into education tech giant Instructure twice, and stole reams of data from students who use the company's flagship student data…