Canvas learning platform hack leaks pupil data and disrupts lessons
The Canvas learning platform was hacked, giving access to student and staff data and disrupting the use of assignment and exam tools. ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen data from 8,809 educational institutions and 275 million users worldwide and threatened to publish it. Security patches were applied and services restored, but a repeat breach and service disruption were also reported.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Student and staff data compromised and lessons, assignments and exams disrupted; 8,809 educational institutions and 275 million users according to the attackers
- Cause / method
- Hack of the learning platform and extortion with the threat of publishing data
- Location
- Other countries
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- A data publication threat targeting an education software company came to light.
- The possibility was raised that student and staff data at North Carolina schools had been accessed in a breach in April.
- ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen data from 8,809 educational institutions, and services were reported to have resumed after security patches.
- After the restoration, a repeat breach and disruption to lessons, assignments and exam tools at US schools were reported.
- The education platform's services were partially restored.
- It came to light that a bitcoin demand message had appeared on Canvas exam papers.
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