“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
More than 40 percent of colleges and universities use Canvas. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | SuperCubePL/iStock/Getty Images The higher education sector got another reminder over the weekend that it remains a prime target for cybercriminals. Hackers who have stolen data from Ticketmaster, Google and several high-profile universities kicked off the month of May by breaching Instructure; the education technology company owns the nation’s most popular learning management system, Canvas, which is used by 41 percent of higher education institutions across North America to
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