Schools reach out to Canvas hackers as breach hits US classrooms

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.

ShinyHunters, 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.