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What we know about the Canvas hack that has impacted thousands of schools

A cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the US Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials – at a time when many are taking or prepping for final exams.

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What to know about the Canvas hack of student data

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Canvas's owner strikes deal with hackers who disrupted thousands of schools

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Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

The company behind the popular Canvas software, which was hacked last week causing major disruption at thousands of universities and colleges, has paid the hackers not to publish stolen data online.

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Maker of Canvas Learning Platform Strikes Deal for Hackers to Return Data

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Top coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric will retire from UNC-Chapel Hill

Canvas back up after ShinyHunters hack forced shutdown

Canvas, a cloud-based learning management platform used by thousands of schools and universities, is back up after it was disabled for hours May 7.

After The Canvas Hack, Here’s What Students And Colleges Should Do Next

While students change passwords and watch out for imposter scams, schools should start scrutinizing their third party providers and practice for the next hack.

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Canvas Hack Aftermath: Congress Wants Instructure to Answer Questions

A hacker group stole data from more than 9,000 schools using an exploit in Instructure's service. Now the House Homeland Security Committee is getting involved.

How a massive hack on school software disrupted classes across America

Instructure, parent company of the education platform Canvas, said it took “immediate steps” to contain the hack before calling law enforcement.

Google Says Criminal Hackers Used A.I. to Find a Major Software Flaw

The company said that it had identified, for the first time, hackers using artificial intelligence to discover an unknown bug. The attempted attack represents “a taste of what’s to come,” one expert said.