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#5 The Hacker News general May 12, 2026 at 07:37 UTC

Instructure Reaches Ransom Agreement with ShinyHunters to Stop 3.65TB Canvas Leak

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

Instructure paid a ransom to the ShinyHunters extortion group after attackers threatened to leak 3.65TB of data stolen from the Canvas LMS platform, affecting more than 8,800 school systems. The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security has since launched an investigation and called Instructure executives to testify, while the company claims it received 'digital confirmation of data destruction' — an assurance that is technically unverifiable.

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