Schools reach out to Canvas hackers as breach hits US classrooms, source says
Key takeaways
- Student newspapers across the country reported this week that the hack was causing widespread disruption as students prepare for end-of-year tasks and assignments.
- The software is used by schools to facilitate class assignments and information sharing, as well as messages between students and school faculty.
- The message included a list of roughly 1,400 individual schools and districts, and invited the schools to contact them to negotiate and prevent data from being posted.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize CALIFORNIA: Some schools and universities whose students’ data was stolen by a cybercriminal hacking group as part of an April breach of the educational tool Canvas individually sought to deal directly with the hackers to prevent data release, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
Shiny Hunters, a hacking group with a string of data theft and extortion campaigns targeting major global companies, said in a May 3 post on its website that it had stolen roughly 6.65 terabytes of Canvas data related to nearly 9,000 schools worldwide that included student names, email addresses and private messages between students, teachers, and other staff.
Student newspapers across the country reported this week that the hack was causing widespread disruption as students prepare for end-of-year tasks and assignments.