Instructure settles with hackers following massive student data theft
Educational tech firm Instructure reached a deal with hackers after a major Canvas breach exposed data stolen from schools and universities. Educational tech firm Instructure says it reached an agreement with the cybercrime group behind a major Canvas data theft, after attackers broke into its systems and threatened to publish stolen information from schools and […]
Educational tech firm Instructure says it reached an agreement with the cybercrime group behind a major Canvas data theft, after attackers broke into its systems and threatened to publish stolen information from schools and universities.
Instructure is a U.S.-based educational technology company best known for developing Canvas, one of the world’s most widely used learning management systems (LMS).
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