ShinyHunters defaces school Canvas login pages after Instructure data breach
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, Zack Whittaker
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Summary
Education tech company Instructure disclosed a data breach where hackers stole student names, emails, and teacher-student messages. The cybercrime group ShinyHunters then defaced Canvas login pages of multiple schools with an extortion message, claiming to have hacked Instructure again.
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Now, it appears hackers were able to compromise Instructure again — this time defacing several schools' login pages to the company's platform Canvas
TechCrunch saw a message published by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters on the Canvas login pages of three separate schools.
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