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Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data
Key takeaways
- Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images.
- The cyber-attack affected an estimated 9,000 institutions in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, with exams disrupted after the Canvas service went down.
- The hackers threatened to publish 3.5 terabytes of student and university data they had stolen in the breach.
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Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, BBC World Service Getty Images. The company behind the popular Canvas software, which was hacked last week causing major disruption at thousands of universities and colleges, has paid the hackers not to publish stolen data online.
The cyber-attack affected an estimated 9,000 institutions in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, with exams disrupted after the Canvas service went down.
The hackers threatened to publish 3.5 terabytes of student and university data they had stolen in the breach.
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