A hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the Canvas breach and threatened to leak data involving 275 million individuals if schools did not pay a ransom.

Instructure's CEO admits it reached an 'agreement' with the ShinyHunters gang to end the extortion threat. The company is now facing class-action lawsuits and a Congressional inquiry.

Canvas parent company Instructure says hackers accessed user data but claim stolen files were deleted after a cyberattack.

Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management platform, says it has “reached an agreement” with hackers that breached its systems last week to prevent stolen data from being leaked online.

Instructure says hackers returned and deleted data taken during a cyberattack targeting the Canvas learning platform.

Canvas parent company Instructure says hackers returned and deleted stolen user data after a cyberattack disrupted schools nationwide.

A hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the Canvas breach and threatened to leak data involving 275 million individuals if schools did not pay a ransom.